arsh wrote:
Some firsts on Lagaan
Lagaan was the first Indian film to be recorded in the sync sound technology.
Lagaan was one of the first films to use real British actors to play the part of Britishers (unlike the use of Tom Alter or Bob Christo as firangs) to add to the authenticity of their look and dialect.
Screen tests for films were not a usual practice in India. But every member in the cast of Lagaan had to go through auditions to get their roles including the foreign starcast.
Lagaan resurrected the trend of hardbound detailed scripts and a start-to-finish one stretch-shooting schedule.
poor journalism by IndiaFM guys (well what do you expect?).....LAGAAN was NOT the first movie to be shot in sync sound....dont know which is the first(i would have certainly researched and found out had I
been a journalist) but almost all of Shyam Benegal's movies have been shot in sync sound. I know for a fact that KAHAAN KAHAAN SE GUZAR GAYA (film by MS Sathyu starring Anil Kapoor was shot in sync sound).
Also 1942 - A LOVE STORY had a Britisher play the role of the villanous Brit officer. So not really true to again state LAGAAN was the first....