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Both stylish and stylized, Santosh Sivan’s Hindi epic Asoka tells the heavily fictionalized but nonetheless compelling story of India’s greatest emperor. In the third century B.C., the Mauryan king Asoka built a vast empire by means of ruthless conquest; but after the great Kalinga war he became sickened by the terrible slaughter he had caused, converted to Buddhism and dedicated the rest of his life to spreading peace and prosperity. The film, though, concerns itself only with Asoka’s rise to power, his love for the princess Kaurwaki, and his subsequent descent into brutality. Shah Rukh Khan is a brooding and temperamental prince who woos the lovely princess Kaurwaki (Kareena Kapoor) incognito and with the aid of the obligatory song-and-dance numbers. After a promising start involving mythic swords, heroic combat, and King Lear-like sibling rivalry, the film falls into a familiar Bollywood groove for a while until events overtake the unlucky lovers and Asoka (more…)
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Asoka
This movie i would recommend this movie to anyone who loves a good love story you will cry you’er eyes out.And the main guy in this movie is so cute. WATCH IT.
5.0 out of 5 stars
HOORAY FOR BOLLYWOOD!!
Are you up for something completely different, something the likes of which I guarantee you have never experienced before?
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don’t let the cheap price and cover fool you!
I assumed that with the low price of the movie and the slightly cheesy cover that it was going to be bad.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful
i really liked this movie. the musical bits were funny and sweet. it has a good story behind it. of course if you’re into the older films then you might not like all the special…
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lousy, Exploitative, and Waste of Time and Talent
Avoid this movie. There are dozens of other Shahrukh Khan movies far better than this one, and many more beautiful Indian actresses rather than Kareena Kapoor.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yay
Found this movie in Blockbuster but as usual it wasn’t for sale in the bin. Great Bollywood movie.
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Rise, Fall and Rebirth
An incredible Bollywood release that tells the story of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asoka. Some great cinematics and fight scenes.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Skip it if you’re interested in Asoka the Buddhist
This is a movie about the Indian ruler Asoka, a significant figure in the history of Buddhism. As is apparently typical of Indian movies, “Asoka” is longer than your average…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Asoka The Great
I am absolutely spellbound by this masterpiece. The movie starts well, it gets slow in the middle where the love story goes on but then takes enormous pace when the King Asoka…
3.0 out of 5 stars
HAVE THEY MADE ASOKA PART TWO YET?
we need today to see the tale of his conversion to his mission of peace rather than genocide.
That is the message we need now as we drown in the blood red song and…