How Lagaan’s Captain Russell helped get relief funds for 2001 Gujarat earthquake
Twenty-five years ago this month, Aamir Khan put Gujarat on the cinematic map by choosing it as the setting of his 2001 seminal period sports drama, Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan. But the same year, on January 26, 2001, five months before the film’s release on June 15, 2001, a massive earthquake shook the state to the core, severely affecting parts of Bhuj, situated close to the shooting location.
