– Sponsored Links — Amazon.com The quietly devastating Maya begins with the statement, “Based on true practices.” Not until the very end will those practices, which still take place in certain remote parts of India, be revealed. Until that time, Digvijay Singh’s deceptively bucolic debut takes a quasi-documentary approach to the rural summer of 12-year-old [...]
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Asoka (2001)
– Sponsored Links — Amazon.com 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 [...]