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Jun
16
2009

Maya (2001)

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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 [...]

Jun
7
2009

Asoka (2001)

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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 [...]