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Mangal Pandey - The Rising
Directed by
Ketan Mehta
The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
The story
The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
Cast
Aamir KhanMangal Pandey
Rani MukerjiHeera
Toby StephensCaptain William Gordon
Ameesha PatelJwala
Om PuriNarrator (uncredited)
Kirron KherLol Bibi
Ben NealonCaptain Hewson
Habib TanvirBahadur Shah Zafar
Varsha UsgaonkarRani Laxmibai
Shrirang GodboleNana Saheb
Kenneth CranhamMr. Kent
Albert WellingLord Charles Canning
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Tom AlterWatson
Mukesh TiwariBakht Khan
Shahbaz KhanAzimullah Khan
Deepraj RanaTatya Tope
Sanjay SwarajJemadar Ishwari Prasad
Murali SharmaShaikh Paltu
Lalit TiwariDawar Ali
Anupam Shyam
Simon ChandlerOfficer Lockwood
Christopher AdamsonGeneral Anson
Subrat DuttaParmanand Jha
Mona AmbegaonkarKamla Singh, wife of Vir Singh
Sulabha AryaOld woman, mother of Vir Singh
Dibyendu BhattacharyaKripashankar Singh
Chirag VohraBhujavan Shukla
Sophiya Haque
Ravi Jhankal
Kailash Kher
Vivek Mishra
Ahsan BakshHassan Ali
Atul KumarNainsukh
Lisa MillettMrs. Wheeler
Sanjeev WilsonMendicant Musician
Pankaj JhaMendicant Musician
Neeraj SoodBangdu
Chittaranjan GiriSlave trader
Richa Sharma
Dinesh LambaBearer
Rajesh TailangBrahmin Sepoy
Shree RammySepoy
Richard Lane SmithBritish doctor
Agnes DareniusMs. Lockwood
Ronnie TomsBarrackpore Sargeant
Graham CullCollector
Pubali SanyalChampal
Howard LeeMr. Quartermaster
Jayne McKennaMrs. Quartermaster
Dilip PavleGordon Servant
Rajul GaurGordon servant 2
Rajesh KareerPankhawala
Manoj ShahSati Priest
Jitendra SinghRelative Villager
Surya Pratap SinghOld Maharaja
NeelkamalAid to Maharaja
Amar BanerjeePoppy Field Villager
Brian DowdenBritish Priest
Thomas CastroPeabody
Geoff DownerGrant
Abhijit LahiriGhoshal Babu
Ajai RohillaRadhe Shyam
Stevan RimkusMitchell
Alyssa FountoutalisBaby
Indu VermaGulab
Mick WardFirst officer
Devender KumarSepoy messenger
PandeyEmily's Coachman
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