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Ranked #13 of 100
Lagaan
लगान · 2001
A drought-struck village bets three years of tax on a cricket match against its colonisers. 224 minutes and not one of them slack.
- Director
- Ashutosh Gowariker
- Year
- 2001
- Genre
- Drama · Sports
- Cast
- Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley
Why it's at number 13
Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. It proved the epic and the crowd-pleaser could be the same object.
A drought-struck village bets three years of tax on a cricket match against its colonisers. 224 minutes and not one of them slack.
Lagaan sits in the 2000s alongside Dil Chahta Hai and Black Friday — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker — also responsible for Swades, Jodhaa Akbar.
- Released in 2001, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Sports.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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