Lafcadia gets hold of the commander and slits his throat killing him. The commander mocks him and tries to kill him but is stealthily attacked by the boy who had been secretly following Lafcadia. Lafcadia reaches the occupied village deserted by its inhabitants. The boy is initially distraught and parts ways with him but understands that he is remorseful and has changed. The orphaned boy's suspicions are confirmed and he learns that Lafcadia used to be a warrior and is likely the murderer of his parents as well. Lafcadia heads to the village to confront them. As they reach the mountains, they learn that a band of warriors have occupied a nearby village and are waiting for someone. They meet a travelling cart driver who agrees to give them a ride. They meet an old blind woman who possesses psychic abilities and wants to pay a visit to the holy lake in the mountains. Nevertheless, he accompanies him throughout the journey. Unaware of Lafcadia's true identity, he befriends him but gets suspicious of him when he observes scars on his body and the villagers who recognise him and are scared of him. On his way, Lafcadia meets an orphaned thief, a young man whose parents were killed in one of the village raids of Lafcadia's band when he was a kid. He embarks on a manhunt to kill Lafcadia. The commander, who has now replaced Lafcadia as the band leader, is still paranoid that Lafcadia might come after him to avenge his son's murder. Lafcadia, now on his own, begins the journey to his homeland on foot. He is temporarily immobilised due to the trauma of witnessing his only child's death and is saved by the palace blacksmith, a kind man who transports him far enough from the palace. Lafcadia, disguised as a peasant, enters the palace gathering, hiding in a crowd of villagers, to save his son but his son is murdered by the commander while he watches from a distance helplessly in the crowd unable to do anything. The commander, takes the head of some other man who resembles Lafcadia and coerces Lafcadia's son to identify it as that of his father to trick the lord. Lafcadia evades capture but his son gets caught. The lord, on learning about this, feels betrayed and orders Lafcadia's second-in-command (who is eager to replace him) to kill him and bring his severed head by the next morning. Guilt-ridden and remorseful, he decides to renounce his role as a warrior and return to his homeland in the mountains with his son in search of solace. He spares the life of the girl and her mother. He also has a brief vision of his ancestral homeland situated in the Himalayas. It reminds him of his own child and makes him realise the barbarity of his deeds. Lafcadia attempts to kill a girl trying to flee with her mother but stops when he spots his son's amulet around her neck ( she was the same girl who had met his son). His sword-wielding and horse-riding men enter the village and begin to burn it down, pillage it and massacre the inhabitants. One day, the lord, angered by the failure of a village to pay the harvest tax, orders Lafcadia and his band to raze the village. The girl makes him her honorary brother by tying a Rakhi(sacred thread tied by sisters around their brothers' wrists) to him. She is the daughter of a travelling cloth merchant woman who arrive at the village for trading. He lives with his son a young boy who one day while playing meets a little girl. He leads a band of other warriors loyal to their lord. ![]() Lafcadia(Irrfan Khan) is a warrior who serves a ruthless and merciless tyrant in desert plains of feudal India. ![]() Britain's official Oscar selection and eventual nominee was the Welsh-language film Solomon and Gaenor. It was also one of the films, short-listed for UK's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was ultimately dropped on grounds that the language was not indigenous to Britain. At the BAFTA Awards it won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. Even though this was his first feature film, The Warrior was produced by companies from the UK, Germany and France. Kapadia started work on the 2001 film within a year of graduating from the Royal College of Art. The movie unfolds taking you from Rajasthan to the Himalayas. The Warrior is the story of spiritual transformation of a cruel warrior Lafcadia. The film is credited with convincing Irrfan Khan to not give up on his acting career. The film is in Hindi and was filmed in Rajasthan, India. It stars Irrfan Khan as Lafcadia, a warrior in feudal Rajasthan who attempts to give up the sword. ![]() ![]() The Warrior is a 2001 film by British filmmaker Asif Kapadia.
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