Compressed history

Rating: 8/10 (16 November 1998)

This is a very good movie, specially since the producers have managed to compress over 200 years of history into a mere few years. I had done previous study about the subject matter of this movie, and that was certainly a help. One comment I would like to make: It is not clear in the movie why the Indian community would disintegrate so completely in the end. In real life the reason was not so much militairy conquest, but rather the abolishment of the Jesuit order and the ensuing leadership vacuum. The locals had not provided their own chiefs for more than 200 years. As an audio/visual spectacle this movie rates very high with me, I have watched it often and with much pleasure.