What's Good - Superb cast, costumes, sets, and dialogues. Opens a window into a bygone, unhurried era. Amjad Khan shines as Wajid Ali Shah. Shows extraordinary range as an actor who had played Gabbar Singh so recently. Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey are good, but act in their typical styles.
What's Not - The tedium of having to listen to literal translations of all English/Urdu dialogues without exception, with Tom Alter playing the role of the most sincere translator in movies ever! And this goes on for a good 20-25 minutes of the movie. Also, a couple of scenes in the middle of the film with Amjad Khan and Richard Attenborough separately are too long drawn and could have done with some editing.
What's Not - The tedium of having to listen to literal translations of all English/Urdu dialogues without exception, with Tom Alter playing the role of the most sincere translator in movies ever! And this goes on for a good 20-25 minutes of the movie. Also, a couple of scenes in the middle of the film with Amjad Khan and Richard Attenborough separately are too long drawn and could have done with some editing.