Black and White

Spoiler warning: Certain plot details of the movie Mangal Pandey: The rising, follow. Do not read if you don't want to.

Today was one day after the release of the much awaited movie : "Mangal Pandey: The rising". After a long wait of 4 years we finally had a movie starring Aamir Khan. We had done the bookings in advance at Sridhar. Sourav had booked 10 tickets for us all but unfortunately not everyone could make it. So it was just me, Anshul, Sujit and Sourav along with some juniors who went to see the movie. Two of my classmates had asked Sourav to book tickets for them too, but they couldn't make it on time. So we were left with two spare tickets. The movie was about to start and we needed to get rid of them fast. So, we started asking other people if they needed two balcony tickets. Now, we did this at a great risk, because we were surrounded with a lot people who were selling tickets in black. There was a pretty good chance of us getting beaten up. Even though we were selling the tickets at the same rate at which we brought them, there were no takers.
When there were 5 minutes to the start we went to the people who were selling tickets in black and asked them if they needed two balcony tickets !!! Two of them said "No", when suddenly one of them came and brought the tickets at Rs 100/-. We earned a profit of Rs 10/- Hurray!!!
Mangal Pandey as a movie doesn't live up to it's hype. It is a nice movie all right, but it is not something of the scale of Lagaan. The songs are not too great and seem to be inserted forcefully into the movie. The title song is good though. The movie rolls along smoothly in the first half and the final thirty minutes are good. The scene where you have Mangal Pandey firing shots alone at the whole Rangoon regiment is quite awesome. As expected Rani Mukherjee's role is confined to just the songs. Amisha Patel's role is not even that much. The English actor who plays the role of "Captain Gordon" has done a good job. Aamir Khan is obviously good.
All in all I would say you should see this movie at least once.