The Rising is a film about Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan), a leader of the 1857 mutiny, his friendship with a British officer (Toby Stevens) and his fight against the British rule.
British war in Afghanistan, 1853, in which Mangal rescues Gordon is shot in the tiny village of Aychi in Tajikistan, near the Afghanistan border. Director Ketan Mehta picked Aychi because it looks like Afghanistan in the 19th century. ...
To get the right donkey for the movie, the director travelled to Sirham, a village on top of the mountains, since Kashmir had only mules and no donkeys.
Pakeezah took nearly 14 years to shoot because of a change in relationship between Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi the director from warm to worse and then back to a compromise. Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi were married when Pakeezah was first conceived.
The movie is silent, with no dialogue whatsoever, yet it deals with a complex and realistic plot.The film is notable for its inventive recasting of the silent film form. Though shot in color and featuring incidental noise, the film does not have any dialogues.
