Lagaan

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Amy & Paul go to bat for 2001's mega-hit Bollywood sports musical Lagaan! They compare star Aamir Khan to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, learn about a key last-minute change to the love triangle plot, and ask what makes the choreography of the musical numbers feel both heightened and naturalistic. Plus: Was Lagaan's campaign to win an Oscar a success? Next week Unspooled concludes this series on musicals with Little Shop Of Horrors! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0	It's 2001 and we're talking about drought, British imperialism, cricket, and dance numbers,
0:07.2	the movie LaGon.
0:08.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Unsould.
0:32.5	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:33.5	And I'm Paul Sheer in this podcast where we are endeavoring to find the hundred best
0:37.4	movies of all time across all genres across all countries.
0:41.2	And when we do, we will send them into outer space for what reason because we can.
0:48.5	We are right now in the middle of our musical series and today we are covering LaGon which
0:53.4	is the very first Bollywood film that we've ever done in this podcast and we felt like our
0:57.5	musical series couldn't be complete without acknowledging the contribution that Bollywood
1:03.2	has made to the movie musical.
1:06.6	That's true.
1:07.6	I mean, if there is any film production center that is like most associated with the musical,
1:13.2	it's got to be India.
1:14.2	It's got to be Bollywood.
1:16.2	And I mean, it's got to be really hard to pick a Bollywood movie.
1:20.4	We really wrestled with this a long time.
1:22.2	We finally settled on LaGon because LaGon is one of the Bollywood films that in the industry
1:27.8	there.
1:28.8	They kind of talk about how there is a before LaGon and an after LaGon.
1:32.6	This is a really pivotal movie that came out in 2001.
1:36.1	They really changed the Bollywood culture of what times of types of films were hits.
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