Lagaan

Aroview: Bollywood epic that broke through to international awards and audience with its ‘test-match’ running-time, lavishness and periodic bursts of song-and-dance numbers all uncompromised.

The classic storyline concerns an impoverished rural village in 1893, who, unable to pay a crippling land-tax, cast their fate on a cricket match with the British authorities (a game they have never played before). Slickly produced by lead star Aamir Khan and starring a swarming cast of thousands, this heart-stirring innings of Indian nationalism is sure to knock you for six!