Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, or simply Lagaan, (transl. Land Tax) is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language epic period sports drama [5] written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker.

Lagaan is a Bollywood film that released in 2001 and is remarkable for its rousing depiction of anticolonial resistance by villagers who humble their British overlords in a cricket match. Directed by …

Jun 15, 2001 · Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India: Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. With Aamir Khan, Raghubir Yadav, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley. The people of a small village in Victorian India stake …

Lagaan is lavish, rousing entertainment in the old-fashioned tradition of Hollywood musicals. A bunch of rag-tag villagers beat the English in a game of cricket in Ashutosh Gowariker's sprawling...

Lagaan cost a whopping Rs. 25 crore (250 million rupees, or roughly 6 million U.S. dollars), a huge risk for the seldom-profitable Bollywood genre of historical film.

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match. Watch trailers & learn more.

Lagaan is an epic underdog story set in colonial India, where a drought-stricken village must win a cricket match against their British oppressors to avoid crippling taxes.

The farmers of the village of Champaner, in the British Central India Agency, live under an oppressive and racist regime, paying land tax (lagaan) despite poverty and an irregular harvest caused by …

Jun 7, 2002 · “Lagaan” is a well-crafted, hugely entertaining epic that has the spice of a foreign culture. The story takes place at the height of the Raj, England’s government of occupation in India.

The story takes place in a small village in Central India, whose settlers, overloaded by high taxes, and several years of drought, find themselves in an bizarre situation as an arrogant British army officer …