Lagaan

Ashutosh Gowariker talks about the difficulties in making 'Lagaan' as it completes 20 years. He expains how they managed to pull off a film that has gone down in history. Aamir Khan was initially not interested in the movie and then had second thoughts when Ashutosh persuaded him. The ice was broken but Aamir was still reluctant to produce it at least. Gowariker did the rounds of many producers who found that the commercial elements were missing in the screenplay and one of them blasphemously even suggested that after the victory, 'a member of Aamir's team should insert the stump into one of…