Mangal Pandey - Fact or History Distorted?

[NOV]

Hindi movie The Rising, portrays the story of Mangal Pandey, a sepoy rebel who took on the British. Was the portrayal accurate?

Britain's Daily Mail thinks otherwise.

[NOV]

BLOODLUST OF THE MUTINEERS; A Lottery-funded film on the Indian Mutiny shows the rebels as heroes - and (surprise, surprise) the British as sadists. In fact, the mutineers were ruthless butchers who massacred women, children and even their own countrymen with savage zeal.

[NOV]

Byline: JONATHAN FOREMAN

TO THE steady beat of drums, the captured mutineers were first stripped of their uniforms and then tied to cannons, their bellies pushed hard against the gaping mouths of the big guns. The order to fire was given.

With an enormous roar, all the cannons burst into life at once, generating a cloud of black smoke that snaked into the summer sky.

When the smoke cleared, there was nothing left of the mutineers' bodies except their arms, still tied to the cannons, and their blackened heads, which landed with a soft thud on the baking parade ground. ...


http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc1.asp?DOCID=1G1:135551865&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf

[Sandeep]

Mangel Pandey himself didnt have any consept of freedom or united India. He was a common man limited to him surroundings.

He sure showed the guts to fight back his (it was more personnel to him than social) oppressers but no he was not a visionery.

[rajivlodha]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Mutiny

[sundararaj]

I agree with Sandeep's view.