This Month’s Film: Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Cuisine: Indian

As the month of October winds to a close, I have, at long last, gotten to watch ‘Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India’. And what a delight it was, although nothing like I expected, so I guess that’s what I get for expecting. None of the reviews or promo text prepared me for the actual plot of the story. Not that it’s any big secret or anything, I just didn’t expect a British India historical epic to center around a high-stakes wager on a cricket match.

At 225 minutes, the film was almost as long as an actual cricket match, but Rene and I watched it in spells throughout the evening, with little snack-and-chat breaks in between. By the end, we were both riveted to our seats, rooting for the rag-tag team of villagers giving it their all in a do-or-die challenge against the British ‘Feringhees’ in their tidy-whitey’s. For a ‘battle without bloodshed’, those Boys of Indian Summer sure know how to put the ‘bat’ in battle.

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