The Warrior

2001
R
1h 26m

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6.6/10

2.8K

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Adventure Drama

In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the long time enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the long time enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the long time enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.

Director
- Asif Kapadia
Writers
- Asif Kapadia
- Timothy Pitt Miller
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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

2.8K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Asif Kapadia
Writers
- Asif Kapadia
- Timothy Pitt Miller
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 2 BAFTA Awards
- 8 wins & 7 nominations total

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Trivia
The Hindi-language film "The Warrior" was chosen by the British Academy of Film and Television to represent the UK in the "Best Foreign Language Film" category at the 2003 Oscars. The AMPAA took the highly unusual step of rejecting the movie because although the film had a British-born director (of Indian ancestry) and was co-produced by three British companies, the film did not qualify as British since "Hindi was not a language indigenous to the U.K." The British Academy was forced to submit its second choice, the Welsh-language, "Eldra". In an ironic twist, "The Warrior" went on to win "Best British Film" at the British Academy Awards the following year, although it lost "Best Non-English Film" to a film from Spain.

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Although the film takes place in medieval India, smoking, unknown in the Old World before contact with the Americas and rare or absent across India before the British period (beginning circa 1600), is widespread. Further, cigarettes constitute most or all of the smoking shown in the film but were invented late in the 19th century. Prior to that, tobacco was smoked almost exclusively in pipes (cigars in the Caribbean).

Similarly, a basket of maize ears is overturned in one scene. Maize was developed by Meso-American peoples and not common in India until well after the beginning of the British period.

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Featured review

breathtakingly beautiful

I just finished watching this film and I wanted to find out what the D.O.P. had done before...then I read some of the comments... I cannot believe people call this film long or boring...what were you watching? This films simplicity is one of the reasons that it is so beautiful and powerful. I found this film completely engaging. The fact that the warrior was more of a 'goon' and not 'an honourable warrior' - whatever that is...is the point, surely. There was no honour in what he was doing...he realized that he was merely a hired killer, and for the sake of his son, he had to break the cycle, and to call this film, with all the love and care and hard work that has obviously gone into it, "dishonest" is just............. The locations and photography were breathtaking, the music, the acting ... it was all wonderful.

Watch this to see how films could be...

I cannot recommend it enough.