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Lagaan songs audio12/2/2023 ![]() Nearly four hours long - about standard length for a Hindi film - and filled with extravagant production numbers, impossibly attractive performers and a generous selection of classic melodramatic devices, ''Lagaan'' may look naïve it is anything but. ![]() Its New York venue is the Film Forum in the South Village, where the regular audience of refined filmgoers might be expected to view ''Lagaan'' with condescension. It became a genuine popular success in London last year, crossing over to a general audience, and now it is reopening in New York, after having played the Indian neighborhoods last summer, and opening in Los Angeles. The musical ''Lagaan,'' however, has leapt over the usual boundaries. Based in Bombay, the Hindi film industry - affectionately known as Bollywood - is one of the largest in the world, but its products are rarely seen beyond India and the Indian communities abroad.
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