WAUKESHA – The second installment in the semester’s foreign film series at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha will feature Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, to be shown in its original Hindi, with English subtitles, at 1:00 and 6:30 p.m. in Northview Hall Room 055 on Friday, April 23. Admission is free and the public is welcome.
The 2002 release runs for 3 hours and 45 minutes and is rated PG. Sara Toenes, a retired foreign language professor, will introduce the film.
Villagers in a remote province of India in 1893 had been paying a tax, or “lagaan,” to their maharajah, who in turn paid the local British garrison. When the tyrannical British commander decides to double the tax, the local hero, Bhuvan, agrees to a wager: If the villagers can beat the British in a cricket match, they will not have to pay the tax for three years. The match ensues.
Nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film, Lagaan has been a box-office hit all over the world.
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