Kesari Hindi DVD - By Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra, Latest Hindi Movie

Pelicula de gran fuerza y tradición. Muy entretenida y épica.

In this spectacular war movie depicting the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi, 21 heroic Sikhs soldiers defend a remote British outpost against 10,000 Afghan tribesmen. The Sikhs do not fight for their British colonizers; they fight to honor their religion, an innate desire for freedom, the abiding love for their families and the farms they left behind. The director skillfully weaves in the backstory of the 21 soldiers, connecting the audience to their dreams and desires. One soldier dreams of his feisty wife who mystically appears when he touches the handkerchief she gave him that he keeps tucked inside his uniform. Another soldier wants to bring his shoeless father back a pair of leather shoes. A bridegroom yearns for his beloved. The attention to historical detail is impressive: The costumes, weapons and fort are authentic as is the tension between the Sikh regiment and the British Commander who fails to send reinforcements dooming the Sikhs to hand to hand combat and martyrdom. The plot and acting are superb, the final sword fight epic. The courage and skill of the Sikh leader rivals Achilles's. This film is one of the finest depictions of an historical battle I have ever seen.

Excellent and inspiring movie. I loved the cinematography with the scenic mountain views and the crystal clear photography. Very scenic. I learned a little about Sikh military tradition, and I totally agree with their feeling of wanting to be free men and not slaves to the British. The one British officer who was arrogant and disrespectful was a complete jerk with his phony sense of superiority who didn't seem to realize that if it wasn't for the Sikh soldiers, he wouldn't have a military command and would probably be dead at the hands of the Afghans. He finally showed respect to the Sikh soldiers by saluting them after they died doing their duty (as free men who chose to do their duty).I learned about this battle, and it reminds me of the Battle of the Alamo in American history or the Battle of Thermopylae in Greek history.A lot of duty, honor, and respect in this movie.Excellent music too - great tunes and rythmn. Excellent vocals as well.I'm an American who speaks only English, but I had no problem understanding what was going on in the movie. The English subtitles that were provided were adequate, and even when only non-English subtitles were present, it was easy enough to understand what was going on by watching the film (what I call situational interpretation)An all around excellent movie. I'm going to buy this movie because its a keeper as far as I'm concerned.

Kesari is a cross between Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and The Birth of a Nation. Whatever basis in history it may gesture at is lost in the absurd antics of its ultimate warrior type hero and the jaw-dropping racism of its ethnic stereotyping.It was hard not to groan and/or giggle as the Ultimate Warrior lead guy proclaims the sacredness and nobility of stuff like the Saffron Turban and other proud super masculine ethno-nationalist emblems. And so, meanwhile, outside the walls of his colonial border fort, a huge rabble of Indian extras dressed up in grubby feed sacks and heavy eyeliner scrum and sweat in the dirt with tinfoil swords realizing Anurag Singh's hateful and distorted vision of Afghanis / Muslims. Most are eventually mown down like weeds by the Punjabi heroes defending a British Alamo.Singh is not afraid to "go there" --i.e. use all the cheap, rankly prejudicial gags in the cinematic bag--in so many ways. Early in the war between Singh's polished golden Punjabis and his masses of Muslim goblins, the Hero faces off with a transvestite or transgender sniper on the Afghans' side. The trans person is plastered in rough lipstick etc, sneaks around like one of DW Griffith's blackface characters taking pot shots from behind rocks with a fanciful rifle, runs with hands up and wrist flapping at one point, and is finally annihilated with explosives by the hero. On and on it goes from there, too ugly and cringe-inducing to tally.

We should just have recruited 100,000 out of the 400-500,000 Sikhs living in the US, had them trained by officers from Sandhurst and sent them to Afghanistan to deal with the Taliban. With those magnificent (fake) beards, Mk 2 577/450 Martini–Henry rifles with Pattern 1876 25-inch bayonets and a couple of thousand M1889 Maxim guns the Sikh supermen warriors would have cleaned out the Talibs and kept them out waaaaayyyyy better than any special forces WE have now.I know that's just a dream re-write of history, but we should seriously consider only sending cross-dressing snipers armed with Ghor-dahan flintlocks. It's amazing how accurate that Afghan is at a distance of several hundred yards with that 15"/L6 caliber Mughal weapon - MUCH better than they are with Kalashnikovs today (I know... Kalashnikovs are pieces of junk bullet squirts made so illiterate 3rd world peasants can hit something if they get lucky).The Pentagon should show this movie to all American servicemen and women before they send 'em over there to show them what a bunch of pushovers the Talibs are when confronted by British-trained Sikhs. A better "how to take out the Taliban" training video has never been made!