Mangal pandey 2005

In India, the demanded a ban on the film, accusing it of showing falsehood and indulging in character assassination of . As an example, the BJP spokesman stated that the film shows Mangal Pandey visiting the house of a prostitute. The leader Uday Pratap Singh called in the for the movie to be banned for its “inaccurate portrayal” of Pandey. The government criticised the film for “distortion” of historical facts, and considered banning it. Protestors in , where Pandey had been a native, damaged a shop selling cassettes and CDs of the film, stalled a goods train on its way to Chapra (Bihar), and staged a sit-in on the Ballia-Barriya highway.

A recently (2014) published analysis of the opening stages of the Great Indian Rebellion is critical of the lack of historical evidence supporting the events of 1857, as portrayed in Mangal Pandey: The Rising.

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The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005)

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