lagaan

The change came with Ashutosh Gowarikers Lagaan. Though it is remembered as a movie which
made the marriage of cricket and cinema possible, Lagaan, within the constraints of cinematic
fantasies, sketched a long-forgotten rural landscape. It had not just folk music and festivals, but also
casteism, illiteracy, hunger and poverty. Three years later Gowariker brought back the problems
raised in Lagaan in the context of modern India with the solution-seeking eyes of Shahrukh Khan in
Mohan Bhargavs Swades. Swades was in many ways a story of self-empowerment, Manthan and
was a reminder of the fact that even after 60 years of independence, certain parts of India remained
unchanged. A journalist in Peepli Live says Half of India still defecates in the open. We should make
this a breaking news story. Perhaps this is our tragedy. A reality check is past its date. The main
reason why there has been a shift in the content and the way movies are made. ?