![]() ![]() Īshutosh Gowariker, his wife Sunita and actor Shahrukh Khan pose for a photo with the Vehicle Assembly Building, Kennedy Space Center in the background during filming for the movie Swades It they win the match, their taxes would be excused, but failing to win would mean having to pay triple taxes. The story revolves around a small village in Central India, whose inhabitants, burdened by high taxes, accept a challenge to play a cricket match against a team of British officers. Lagaan is set in 1893, during the late Victorian period of India's colonial British Raj. Later, when Gowariker narrated the story to Aamir's parents, they were moved to tears and told the actor to do the film. I told him, ‘It is a fantastic script and it does break the record of mainstream cinema. I loved the final script of Lagaan and found it unbelievable. "But when I heard the story, I was into it. Aamir was irritated that Gowariker kept working on it and rejected the film the second time. I was like it is a story of people who are not able to pay lagaan as there are no rains and they play cricket with British people! I was like, ‘What a bizarre thought is this!’ I told Ashutosh, ‘This is a strange story.’ I told him to get me a different story," Aamir had told Pinkvilla in his 2018 interview.Īfter three months, Gowariker approached Aamir again, but this time with a complete script. Īamir had rejected the film within 5 minutes of narration and told Gowariker that it was a bizarre thought."When I heard Lagaan, in five minutes of its narration, I rejected it. It ranked third among 2001's Indian movies in terms of gross revenue. Lagaan was the story of a cricket match between British officers and Indian villagers in the late 19th century. ![]() In 2001, Gowariker wrote and directed the period epic movie Lagaan, produced by and starring Aamir Khan. ![]() His second movie Baazi (1995), starred Aamir Khan. In 1993, he made his directorial debut with Pehla Nasha. (1998) and several films, including Naam (1986), Chamatkar (1992), and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1993). After that, he acted in several television serials, including Kacchi Dhoop (1987), Circus (1989), C.I.D. On the Holi sets, Gowariker met Aamir Khan with whom he go on to collaborate with years later. Gowariker started his career as an actor, making his debut in 1984 in director Ketan Mehta's picture Holi.
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