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Nitin Chandrakant Desai, the Indian production designer best known for his work on the Oscar-nominated “ Lagaan ” (2001) and BAFTA-nominated “ Devdas ” (2002), was found dead Aug. 2 at his ...
“Lagaan” was screened at several international film festivals and enjoyed widespread acclaim overseas. While the film’s appeal to diverse audiences emerges from an international cast, historical ...
Birthday Boy Vidhu Vinod Chopra in an unpublished interview from 2003: “Lagaan is the only film I liked in recent years”.
Bollywood star Aamir Khan, who will join the Indian soldiers at the border in Jammu and Kashmir's Akhnoor as part of NDTV's Jai Jawan on August 15 on the occasion of Independence Day, was quizzed ...
My esteemed colleagues elsewhere in this august journal have already made passing comments about this year’s Oscar showdown for best foreign language film. They seem to share the same mind as I, that ...
The success of Lagaan also convinced the Bollywood star to overcome his longstanding reluctance and follow his father and other industry role models into producing movies.
The 2000s brought big revolution in the Indian cinema. Aamir Khan's Lagaan changed the landscape of Indian cinema. Let's find out how.