"LAGAAN" in HD on ZeeTV HD... Hope for Bluray alive?

[technobhatt]

I have a habit on weekend to schedule recording of newly unwatched Hindi movies to be telecast on various Hindi HD channels; so that I can watch these movies later at my ease.
Surprisingly, last Sunday I found 'Lagaan' movie having a scheduled telecast on Zee Tv HD in the afternoon 1pm. So I recorded it and watched the same last night.

Few observations:

- This was a really an HD transfer; not an up-scaled DVD type transfer; as I had observed in few movies on Colors HD such as 'Hasee Toh Fasee' etc.
You can call it equivalent to the Web-HDRip quality.

- All the day scenes looked pretty good. I remember watching this movie in theater on 30th June 2001 in a matinee show and post that date, I think this is the best version I have come across so far, after the DVD I watched that was released in 2007.

- I observed lot of Black Crush in darker/night scenes.

- Movie was telecast in its theatrical length of 224 Minutes.

- Sound was Stereo as the channel comes with Stereo AAC sound only. However there was no problem with the stereo sound. It was properly arranged. In few scenes, I liked the background music sounding pretty well.

After seeing the movie in better than DVD quality, I seriously wish Lagaan Bluray gets released soon.

I have taken few screenshots on my 40" TV from a digital camera. Pardon my pathetic photography skills. Few pics look blurred because the camera couldn't capture the moving objects well or probably I don't know how to take photos...
There are plenty of pics; so I have put them in spoiler tag.
Imagine watching full movie through these pics

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