Yesterday, Aamir Khan's Lagaan celebrated its 10th birthday. Everyone involved in the film, talks about what it was be a part of history.

This, from lyricist Javed Akhtar:

"Lagaan was a suicidal project and I tried to prevail upon Aamir Khan not to go ahead with it. I was shocked when Ashutosh Gowariker narrated me the script. It had a long list of dont's of Hindi cinema.

"I thought I should protect Aamir, that he should not commit this suicide. But, both he and Ashutosh treated me like an elder and did not listen to me," Javed said at a celebration party last night.

He wondered what kind of 'song situations' would be there when there are 100 people singing one single song.

On Rediff.com: The whole system changed after Lagaan