VISUALISING THE REVOLT OF 1857: THE NATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Contemporary pictorial images have been a valued source of history, but paintings have simultaneously been constricted by style and ability. Films, as soon as soundtracks were introduced subsumed both painting and drama. The events of 1857 are a landmark in British Indian history. The British however never made landmark films of what they called the Sepoy Mutiny.  In India, on the other hand, soon after freedom The war of Independence became the theme for evocative cinema. Most discussed have been recent years productions, Shatranj ke Khilari depicting the British annexation of Awadh and Mangal Pandey The Rising, based on the Barrackpore Uprising. We have based our submission on the understanding that the fictionalizing of history though admittedly lacking authenticity can yield ponderable interpretation