It's a good movie... Yes it is a slow paced movie not all movies are made like that. But you can watch them, this one is intense and emotional with amazing visuals, great acting and man... They do take you to parts of 18th century India. Just required amout not cheesey nor grandeur.
Like many this movie will get a cult status in the later years.
And man it would have been great if it was made as a series.. It's got plot points too for a series like game of thrones in India where East India company, the kings and rulers of different parts of India are fighting with each other to rule over the country.
We would have seen an era.... those stories, the mysteries, the cultures, the deaths, the slavery, the revolutions all of 18th and 19th centuries..