The Warrior (2001 British film)

The Warrior
The Warrior
	Region 2 DVD cover
Directed by	Asif Kapadia
Written by	Asif Kapadia; Tim Miller
Produced by	Bertrand Faivre
Starring	Irrfan Khan
Cinematography	Roman Osin
Edited by	Ewa J. Lind
Music by	Dario Marianelli
Distributed by	Film4
Release dates	23 September 2001 (SSFF); 3 May 2002 (United Kingdom); 18 June 2003 (France);
Running time	86 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; France; Germany; India
Language	Hindi
Budget	£2.5m

The Warrior is a 2001 film by British-Indian filmmaker Asif Kapadia. It stars Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan as Lafcadia, a warrior in feudal Rajasthan who attempts to give up the sword. The film is in Hindi and was filmed in Rajasthan, India.

Kapadia started work on the 2001 film within a year of graduating from the Royal College of Art.^[2] Even though this was his first feature film,^[2] The Warrior was produced by companies from the UK, Germany and France. At the BAFTA Awards it won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. It was also selected as the UK's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was rejected by the Academy on the grounds that the Hindi language is not indigenous to Britain.^[3]

Release

Festival screenings include: London, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Montreal, Karlovy Vary, Pusan, Gothenburg, Mumbai, Kolkata, Boston.

References

^ "The Warrior". British Film Institute. London. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ ^a ^b Matt Warren (24 August 2001). "Review The silent soldier The Warrior". The Scotsman. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
^ "UK Hindi film causes Oscar trouble". BBC News. 29 November 2002. Retrieved 28 September 2008. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

The Warrior at IMDb
The Warrior at Rotten Tomatoes

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[1] "The Warrior". British Film Institute. London. Retrieved 10 November 2012.

[Warren-2] Matt Warren (24 August 2001). "Review The silent soldier The Warrior". The Scotsman. Retrieved 31 May 2012.

[3] "UK Hindi film causes Oscar trouble". BBC News. 29 November 2002. Retrieved 28 September 2008. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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