Lagaan director Ashutosh Gowariker well-known shows one ‘correction’ he’d make to film.
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- Lagaan director Ashutosh Gowariker in an interview, revealed the one ‘correction’ that he would like to make to the film, in hindsight.
- The Oscar-nominated Lagaan, which starred Aamir Khan in the lead role, celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker has discovered the one ‘correction’ that he could want to make to Lagaan, have been he to direct it today. The Oscar-nominated Lagaan, which starred Aamir Khan within the lead position, celebrated its twentieth anniversary.
In an interview, Ashutosh Gowariker became asked if there has been something he’d want to feature or get rid of from the movie if he has been allowed to make it these days. He stated that he could need to make one exchange especially. However, it’d affect the film’s cutting-edge 224-minute run time.
He advised The Quint, “I might genuinely make it exactly the way I made it, but there might be one ‘correction’ that I would like to do. And the correction is that after we made the movie, it becomes four hours and 5 mins, the first reduction we had.
And we had removed 18 or 20 mins of an entire track, which changed into Captain Russell arresting the villagers and putting them at the back of bars, and framing them, and then Elizabeth coming and rescuing them.”
He persisted, “It was completely interesting music, with a variety of romance that becomes entwined among the three of them — Bhuvan, Gauri, and Elizabeth. That had to pass.
Today if I should make the film, I might by some means try to maintain it along with the three hours forty-four mins, so that audiences can enjoy that also, that is a tall order, but I might have cherished to try this.”
Lagaan stays one among the simples three Indian movies to had been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars, the others being Mother India and Salaam Bombay!.
