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	'''''The Warrior''''' is a 2001 film by [[United Kingdom\|British]] filmmaker [[Asif Kapadia]]. It stars [[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]]. The film is credited with convincing Irrfan Khan to not give up on his acting career.<ref>https://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/features/2019/happy-birthday-irrfan-khan-we-bet-you-did-not-know-these-interesting-facts-about-the-actor-281196.html</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dgq4w</ref>		'''''The Warrior''''' is a 2001 film by [[United Kingdom\|British]] filmmaker [[Asif Kapadia]]. It stars [[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]]. The film is credited with convincing Irrfan Khan to not give up on his acting career.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/features/2019/happy-birthday-irrfan-khan-we-bet-you-did-not-know-these-interesting-facts-about-the-actor-281196.html\|title = Happy Birthday Irrfan Khan: We Bet You Didn't Know These Interesting Facts About the Actor!\|date = 7 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dgq4w\|title = BBC Three Counties Radio - Chetan Patak, in conversation: Actor Irfan Khan}}</ref>

	The Warrior is the story of spiritual transformation of a cruel warrior Lafcadia. The movie unfolds taking you from Rajasthan to the Himalayas.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Must Watch Movies of Irrfan Khan\|url=https://www.ekwanderingastronome.com/2020/05/irrfan-khan-best-movie-to-watch.html\|access-date=2021-03-21}}</ref> Kapadia started work on the 2001 film within a year of graduating from the [[Royal College of Art]].<ref name="Warren">{{cite news \|title=Review The silent soldier The Warrior \|author=Matt Warren \|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]] \|date=24 August 2001 \|access-date=31 May 2012\|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18797156.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611123823/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18797156.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=11 June 2014}}</ref> Even though this was his first feature film,<ref name="Warren"/> ''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 one of the films, short-listed for UK's official entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film\|Academy Awards]] but was ultimately dropped on grounds that the language was not indigenous to Britain.		The Warrior is the story of spiritual transformation of a cruel warrior Lafcadia. The movie unfolds taking you from Rajasthan to the Himalayas.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Must Watch Movies of Irrfan Khan\|url=https://www.ekwanderingastronome.com/2020/05/irrfan-khan-best-movie-to-watch.html\|access-date=2021-03-21}}</ref> Kapadia started work on the 2001 film within a year of graduating from the [[Royal College of Art]].<ref name="Warren">{{cite news \|title=Review The silent soldier The Warrior \|author=Matt Warren \|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]] \|date=24 August 2001 \|access-date=31 May 2012\|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18797156.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611123823/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18797156.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=11 June 2014}}</ref> Even though this was his first feature film,<ref name="Warren"/> ''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 one of the films, short-listed for UK's official entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film\|Academy Awards]] but was ultimately dropped on grounds that the language was not indigenous to Britain.

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{{short description|2001 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Warrior
| image = The Warrior (film).jpg
| caption = Region 2 DVD cover
| director = [[Asif Kapadia]]
| producer = [[Bertrand Faivre]]
| writer = [[Asif Kapadia]]<br />Tim Miller
| starring = [[Irrfan Khan]]
| music = [[Dario Marianelli]]
| cinematography = [[Roman Osin]]
| editing = [[Ewa J. Lind]]
| distributor = [[Film4 Productions|FilmFour Distributors]] (United Kingdom)
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2001|9|23|[[San Sebastián Film Festival|SSFF]]|2002|5|3|United Kingdom|2003|6|18|France}}
| runtime = 86 minutes
| country = United Kingdom<br/>India<br/>Germany<br/>France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/707541|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114100205/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/707541|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 January 2009|work=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=10 November 2012|title=The Warrior|location=London}}</ref>
| language = Hindi
| budget = £2.5m
| gross =
}}
'''''The Warrior''''' is a 2001 film by [[United Kingdom|British]] filmmaker [[Asif Kapadia]]. It stars [[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]]. The film is credited with convincing Irrfan Khan to not give up on his acting career.<ref>https://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/features/2019/happy-birthday-irrfan-khan-we-bet-you-did-not-know-these-interesting-facts-about-the-actor-281196.html</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dgq4w</ref>

The Warrior is the story of spiritual transformation of a cruel warrior Lafcadia. The movie unfolds taking you from Rajasthan to the Himalayas.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Must Watch Movies of Irrfan Khan|url=https://www.ekwanderingastronome.com/2020/05/irrfan-khan-best-movie-to-watch.html|access-date=2021-03-21}}</ref> Kapadia started work on the 2001 film within a year of graduating from the [[Royal College of Art]].<ref name="Warren">{{cite news |title=Review The silent soldier The Warrior |author=Matt Warren |newspaper=[[The Scotsman]] |date=24 August 2001 |access-date=31 May 2012|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18797156.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611123823/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18797156.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2014}}</ref> Even though this was his first feature film,<ref name="Warren"/> ''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 one of the films, short-listed for UK's official entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Academy Awards]] but was ultimately dropped on grounds that the language was not indigenous to Britain.

[[United Kingdom|Britain]]'s official Oscar selection and eventual nominee was the [[Welsh-language]] film ''[[Solomon and Gaenor]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=UK Hindi film causes Oscar trouble |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2002-11-29 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2527435.stm |access-date=2008-09-28}}</ref>

==Release==
As pre-publicity the director attended a Q&A screening in Wood Green's Cineworld Cinema, commenting that it was good to be back at the shopping centre where he had spent so much time hanging out as a teenager.

Festival screenings include: [[BFI London Film Festival|London]], [[Edinburgh International Film Festival|Edinburgh]], [[International Film Festival Rotterdam|Rotterdam]], [[Pusan International Film Festival|Pusan]], [[Gothenburg Film Festival|Gothenburg]], [[Boston Film Festival|Boston]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0295682}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|1147812-warrior}}

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