Eklavya - The Royal Guard (2007)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
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After a seven-year self-imposed exile from cinema, acclaimed filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra returns to the director's chair for this tale about a Royal Guardsman and expert marksman whose loyalty to the crown is the stuff of legend. Eklavya (Amitabh Bachchan) lives for one reason and one reason only: to protect Devigarh at all costs. For nine generations, Eklavya's family has protected Rajasthan's centuries-old citadel, and Eklavya's staunch dedication has even inspired loving ballads by the
Cast
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Amitabh Bachchan
Eklavya -
Sanjay Dutt
Pannalal -
Saif Ali Khan
Prince Harshwardhan -
Vidya Balan
Rajjo -
Jackie Shroff
Jyotiwardhan -
Jimmy Shergill
Udaywardhan -
Boman Irani
Rana Jaywardhan -
Raima Sen
Princess Nandinidevi -
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Sharmila Tagore
Suhasinidevi -
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All Critics (7) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (0)
Strongly cast tale of royal scheming, family skeletons and healthy slaughter is an involving mood piece.
Top CriticThis stirring dramatic feature by Kashmiri director Vidhu Vinod Chopra marries its varied elements -- modernity and classicism, current-day India and its feudal past, contemporary corruption and blood tradition -- in a coherent and propulsive fashion.
Here's a robustly unassuming and entertaining Bollywood melodrama starring Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt, set in a romanticised contemporary Rajasthan.
This is robust storytelling, with blood and thunder pumping through its veins, and real whiskers on its face.
Not your typically silly Bollywood offering, this relatively short Indian saga is pretty to look at, demonstrating with gentle humor how a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
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Its well paced and secretive drama - lots of twists and dark settings - an interesting and unique drama from the Bollywood norm.
What a cast!! Big B is the pick of the bunch of course, with my personal fav Sanjay Dutt backing him up and veteran Jackie Sheroff making a good comeback. And Saif Ali Khan is one of the best in new talent today.
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skills. When Eklavya outclassed the royal princes in the art of archery, the man he had idolized as his mentor, the great guru Dronacharya, asked of him a
terrible gift in return for his tutelage: his right thumb" Note: If youre gonna get this movie, get it with the subtitles or english translations. I assure you, Its worth it :)