Bollywood actor Ameesha Patel shed light on being rejected last minute to play the female lead in Ashutosh Gowariker’s directorial Lagaan for looking “too educated”

Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, the film is set in 1893, during the late Victorian period of India`s colonial British Raj. The story revolves around a small village in Central India, whose inhabitants are burdened by high taxes.