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...Rahman's future projects include the film 1857: The Rising, a big-budget historical epic based on the Sepoy Mutiny and starring Aamir Khan and British actor Toby Stephens. Ratnam has also booked the composer for his latest production Yuva, which is set to be released later this year. Hollywood, too, has beckoned. Rahman won't reveal who has made offers, but says he turned them down, mainly out of trepidation. "Things work in a different way there," he says. "Even big composers get changed. I don't want to be in that mess...
Victoria Cross. The same eagerness crushed Indian mutineers at Lucknow in the Sepoy Rebellion in 1858. It scattered Nazi Germany's Afrika Korps in the Battle of El Alamein during World War II and earned the regiment the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honor, for service during the Korean War. On its last assignment, helping to quell last year's Aden rebellion, the regiment displayed its typical bravado, marching to the strains of bagpipe music into the middle of the Arab-terrorized Crater district under the colorful command of Captain Colin ("Mad Mitch") Mitchell...
...historical heroines of India's freedom movement is the widowed Rani of Jhansi, who joined the 1857-1858 Sepoy Rebellion against British rule. Leading her small personal army, she captured a British fort and defended it until she was cut down in battle by a British hussar. The big change in feminine status came with Mahatma Gandhi, who urged women of every caste to cast aside convention and share equally with men in India's struggle for independence. Thousands heeded his call, and as India won freedom, so did many of its women. A woman served as Shastri's Health...
...hatred lies bone-deep, and is cultural as well as religious. Hindus worship cows and Moslems eat them. Hindus regard Moslems as unclean, and Moslems call Hindus caste-ridden. The great Sepoy Rebellion still rankles. When Moslem regiments revolted, Hindus helped the British to crush them...
...synopsis, this novel suggests just one more Yul Brynner movie. In detail, it is something quite different: a wildly funny satire. Brynner's part is taken by the Rao Jagnabad, a glitteringly bejeweled, savagely personable hunter-princeling known as the Nine-Tiger Man. When the Sepoy Mutiny erupts in Delhi, the English dispatch their women to the Rao's palace, confident that they will be out of harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate...