Lagaan Critic Reviews

Rippingly good, old-fashioned movie epic.Read the full review

The unlikeliest enthralling movie to be released so far this year.Read the full review

An enormously entertaining movie, like nothing we've ever seen before, and yet completely familiar.Read the full review

Lagaan may look naïve; it is anything but. This is a movie that knows its business — pleasing a broad, popular audience -- and goes about it with savvy professionalism and genuine flair.Read the full review

Neither pure masala musical nor pure masala meller, Lagaan is an involving, easily digestible hunk of pure entertainment that could be the trigger for Bollywood's long-awaited crossover to non-ethnic markets.Read the full review

By the time Lagaan climaxes with 90 minutes of remarkably riveting cricket, the stakes and the effects on the players have taken on a vivid clarity, and what might have started out as corny clichés have become the stuff of classic movie entertainment.Read the full review

Raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme, and a sophisticated style and point of view.Read the full review