125: Rebel Yell: Mangal Pandey, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, and Sardar Udham

Bollywood is For Lovers

We bone up on our Indian history with three biopics about revolutionaries during the Indian independence movement.

Show notes:

• The Indian independence movement lasted from 1857 to 1947, but keep in mind we are not experts in Indian history when listening to this episode...
• Episode 88: Playing With The Past: Gandhi and Rang De Basanti with Torrey Dance
• What we learned about India in history class (basically nothing)
• Cycles of revolution: the 1857 Sepoy Uprising inspires HRSA in the 20s and 30s, inspires the assassination of O’Dwyer in 1940
• Mangal Pandey: The Rising
• The “cartridge controversy”, as explained in Flashman in the Great Game (George Macdonald Fraser, 1975)
• BSD performances
• “Good” English-language villain actors
• The Legend of Bhagat Singh
• Non-cooperation movement
• Is Ajay Devgn too old to play Bhagat Singh?

(INTERVAL “Rasiya” from Mangal Pandey)

• Sardar Udham
• Vicky Kaushal is having an amazing year
• Shoojit Sircar’s directorial range
• Jallianwala Bagh massacre
• Koozhangal (Pebbles) and India’s submission to the Oscars

Next time: 2021 year-end wrap-up

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