The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey

Year:

2005

Duration:

150 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Ketan Mehta

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: India

Release Date: 2005-08-12

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $531,018 (USA) (14 August 2005)

Gross: $874,380 (USA) (28 August 2005)

Cast

Actor

Character

Rani Mukerji

Disha Vakani

Aamir Khan

Sepoy Mangal Pandey

Toby Stephens

Captain William Gordon

Coral Beed

Emily

Ameesha Patel

Jwala

Kiron Kher

Lol Bibi (as Kirron Kher)

Om Puri

Narrator

Ben Nealon

Hewson

Habib Tanvir

Bahadur Shah Zafar (as Tanveer Habib)

Varsha Usgaonkar

Rani Laxmibai

Kenneth Cranham

Kent

Tom Alter

Watson

Mukesh Tiwari

Bakht Khan

Shahbaaz Khan

Azimullah

Amin Hajee

Vir Singh

Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Krupashankar Singh (as Dibiyendu Bhattacharya)

Ahsan Baksh

Hassan Ali

Irfanouzzaman

Deendayal Awasthi

Chirag Vohra

Bhujavan Shukla

Sanjay Swaraj

Ishwariprasad

Tarun Kumar

Rahmat Ali

Ram Gopal Bajaj

Sarpanch (as Gopal Ram Babaj)

Shrirang Godbole

Nana Saheb (as Srirang Godbole)

Sohrab Ardeshir

Sorabji

Atul Kumar

Nainsukh

Deep Raj Rana

Tatya Tope (as Deepraj Rana)

Mona Ambegaonkar

Kamla

Jeremy Clyde

Hearsey

Simon Chandler

Lockwood

Christopher Adamson

Anson

Stevan Rimkus

Mitchell (as Steven Rimkus)

Alyssa Fountoutalis

White Baby

Lalit Tiwari

Davar Ali

Anupam Shyam

Choudhary

Abhijit Lahiri

Ghoshal Babu (as Abhijeet Lehiri)

Ajai Rohilla

Radhe Shyam (as Ajay Rohilla)

Murli Sharma

Sheikh Paltu

Vivek Mishra

Zakhmi poet

Joel Guyton Lee

Adjutant Bunbury

Albert Welling

Canning

Joanne Slater

Mrs. Canning (as Joanna Slater)

Ronnie Toms

Barrackpore Sargeant

Graham Cull

Collector

Howard Lee

Mr. Quartermaster

Jayne McKenna

Mrs. Quartermaster

Micheal Ward

First officer

Lisa Millett

Mrs. Wheeler

Sanjeev Wilson

Mendicant Musician

Pankaj Jha

Mendicant Musician

Manoj Mishra

Mendicant Musician

Mahendra Mewati

Mendicant Musician

Sulabha Arya

Old Woman / Kamla's mother-in-law (as Sulbha Arya)

Rohit Raj

Bhola Tiwari

Neeraj Sood

Bangdu

Chittaranjan Giri

Slave trader

Richa Sharma

Lol Bibi's Girl

Anita Neha

Chameli

Indu Verma

Gulab

Pubali Sanyal

Champa

Ravi Jhankal

Sufi Singer On Elephant

Kailash Kher

Sufi Singer

Dilip Pavle

Gordon servant 1 (as Dilip Pawale)

Rajul Gaur

Gordon servant 2

Rajesh Kareer

Pankhawala

Amarjeet Amle

Native announcer

Alexander Klein

Behrampore Sargeant

Manoj Shah

Sati priest

Jitendra Singh

Relative villager

Surya Pratap Singh

Old Maharaja

Neelkamal

Aide to Maharaja

Mohan Pandey

Poppy Field Villager 1

Saubhagya Shukla

Poppy Field Villager 2

Amar Banerjee

Poppy Field Villager 3

Dinesh Lamba

Bearer

Richard Lane Smith

British doctor (as Father Richard Lane Smith)

Thomas Castro

Peabody

Agnes Darenius

Ms. Lockwood

Geoff Downer

Grant

Brian Dowden

British priest

Rajesh Tailang

Brahmin sepoy

Yarko

British Bugleguard

Mevlana St. James

Jacob

Shazan St. James

Patrick

Krupa Jayesh

Anarkali

Neha Daniel

Susan

Devender Kumar

Sepoy messenger

Pandey

Emily's coachman

Camila Bordonaba

Subrat Dutta

Mangal's friend

Mick Ward

First officer

Sophiya Haque

Singer / dancer in song 'Rasiya' (uncredited)

Ali Sichilongo

(uncredited)

Laurence Spellman

(uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

After Aishwarya Rai Bachchan turned down the part of Jwala, Rani Mukerji was given the script to read and consider taking over for the part of Jwala. However Rani liked the character of Heera so much that she asked if she could play her instead. The part was much smaller at the time, but changes were made to the script to give her character more storyline.

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Ketan Mehta had first thought of making this film in 1988, with Amitabh Bachchan as Pandey.

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Is the first Indian film to open the Locarno Film Festival.

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Goofs

The British forces are using an outdated form of shako. The form of shako used in 1857 had a top that was wider than the bottom.

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At the beginning of the movie, Mangal has the vermillion mark on his forehead. Later on, while they wait for a new executioner, Mangal sits in the jail cell with no markings on his forehead. Then Heera comes and places the vermillion on him. Since this happens after the initial scene, Mangal's forehead should have been clear in the beginning.

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In the beginning when the opening credits roll, a coin can be seen on which there are the following words "Victoria Empress". The events of the film are set in 1857, but Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India by the decision of the British Parliament only in 1876 and this is announced in India in 1877, twenty years after the story of the film. It is important, because the Mughal Emperor (Bahadur Shah II) still alive in 1857 is also shown in the film, and the British Queen gets this title long time after his deposition in 1857 and his death in 1862.