That same year, in August 1893, the Europeans played the Parsees at the Gymkhana Ground in Bombay in a two-day match. The Presidency Matches (predecessor to the Bombay Pentangular tournament) were already being contested by then. Given the premise of the story, this match was of considerable importance. There were rare one-day one-innings or two-day one-innings games, but they were mainly festive inconsequential matches of no importance. Most domestic matches in England were of three-day duration, and even two-day matches were played two innings a side. One-innings match:There was very little chance for a three-day match organised in 1893 to be restricted to one innings a side. In 1893, five-ball overs were the way to go even in South Africa.Ģ. In Australia, six-ball overs were indeed in place from 1891-92, but one cannot expect the British soldiers to take cue from the Australian cricketers, ignoring the English laws of the game. Hence, in 1893, the men under Captain Andrew Russell would no doubt follow the five-ball system. It was only in 1900 that six ball overs were introduced. From 1889 to 1899, the number of balls per over was increased to five. In England till 1888, the over consisted of four deliveries. Presumably the English cricketers in India would follow the cricketing rules in the Old Country during that time. Six-ball over: The first glaring error occurs with the six-ball over. What we will be concentrating on are the factual mistakes.ġ. We won’t question why there were no snicks and edges from the predominantly cross batted efforts of the villagers - the only catch offered by the local men was a skier, none to the wicketkeeper or the close field. We won’t wonder why a group of experienced English bowlers would feed a line-up of cross batted batsmen with a gamut of short pitched balls. We won’t wonder about the power of the cross bat, which turned out to be incredibly more effective than the technically correct game of the cantonment batsmen. Similarly we won’t be discussing why a group of Englishmen would play cricket at the sweltering height of summer in Gujarat, even as the villagers waited eagerly for the rains to come. After all Ravindra Jadeja also hails from the same state. Perhaps it was really possible for a bunch of villagers of Gujarat, who had never seen a cricket bat till a month ago, to defeat a group of serious English cricketers, or even chase down 323 in the late 19th century. Here we will not be talking of feasibility of the tale. In fact, even the climax is somewhat ruinedif one takes cricket as played in 1893 into the picture. Taking little away from the excellent movie, if one focuses solely on the cricket, there are errors aplenty where the story stumbles on the intricacies and historical details of the game. Yet, for all its excellent plot, direction, casting and script, this well-researched period drama ended up with several glaring glitches from the very same cricketing point of view. They played in whites too… er, at least one of the teams did. Very few movies have had all the drama revolving around our favourite sport in this riveting way. Every serious paper went gaga over it while a critic of Roger Egbert’s status voiced, “ Lagaan is an enormously entertaining movie, like nothing we’ve ever seen before.” Finally, it was a delight for cricket lovers. Rotten Tomatoes still rates it 95% on its tomato meter, on IMDb it registers at 8.3. It received rave reviews everywhere - from the masses and the cognoscenti. Besides, there were awards and accolades in the film festivals held at distant cities from Portland to Leeds, from Bergen to Locarno.
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Away it was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards - the third Hindi movie to do so after Mother India and Salaam Bombay. At home there were eight National Film Awards, eight Filmfare Awards, nine IIFA Awards, eight Zee Cine Awards and eight Screen Awards. Besides, the shelves struggled to accommodate the awards. How did it fare? With plenty of success in both home and away conditions.Īt the international box-office it grossed 2.5 million dollars, at home 380 million rupees. A landmark film, a box office money spinner and recipient of the most eloquent of critical acclaims. It has gone down one of the most successful films in the history of Indian cinema.However, Arunabha Sengupta lists several cricket related factual errors that are littered throughout the otherwise excellent film. Lagaan - the landmark movie starring Aamir Khan that came out on June 15, 2001, in which cricket plays such a pivotal role. Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan released in 2001.
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