Stephen wrote:
I received my copy yesterday and it seems the UK is just getting the Indian version the same as everyone else and not 'Ballad of Mangal Pandey' as advertised, so it looks like the English version isn't going to see the light of day on DVD.
If YRF were only going to release one version, it seems strange they'd choose the Hindi version since the film was aimed at the international market anyway.

If it's just the audio track that is different, then the 'Ballad of Mangal Pandey' could've just been a seperate audio track on the DVD that could be selected. When I saw the Ballad of Mangal Pandey in a Cinema, the picture quality was bad and the sound was low. The DVD of the Indian version - Mangal Pandey actually looks better. If they were promoting 'the Ballad' for International audiences there were alot of time-wasting scenes that should've been cut out as well as some songs. The shot of Rani with a pug and a sword, fighting the British in the end, should have been completely deleted!

There were people either laughing or kissing their teeth in disgust when they showed that. You can't take Indian films seriously when directors mess up on stuff like that.