An Interesting Tale

Rating: 6/10 (4 May 2011)

Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan -- a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander.
Can you go wrong with Michael Caine or Sean Connery -- or both together? I imagine not. While I am hardly a fan of Rudyard Kipling's work, this makes me thing that perhaps there is a story of his I like. Or maybe I am just blinded by the Caine-Connery.
What I find interesting is the story taking place in Kafiristan, a Hindu region on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The story was written in the 1800s, and the film was made in 1975. The area probably was not well known in 1975, but soon became better known in 1979 when the Russians invaded. In 2001, the Americans also invaded the area... and as the film says, no one has held it since Alexander the Great.
So, the film's appeal for me is the tie to modern history and current events, though the factuality of the story is quite questionable.