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	Planet-Bollywood - Film Review - Asoka
		Asoka is a changed man. He gets increasingly cruel in his actions, alienating Devi and surprising Veerat with his lack of mercy, slaying his brothers and assuming the throne of Magadha.
		The film is extremely stylish in its mix of Indian aesthetic and contemporary simplicity which reflects in the art direction by Sabu Cyril and pleasing costume design.
		The performances throughout the film are spot on with Shah Rukh Khan ruling the roost once again with his stupendous and sincere portrayal of Asoka, his myriad emotions and thoughts shining like a mirror in every frame.
	www.planetbollywood.com /Film/Asoka (626 words)

	Asoka (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asoka is a 2001 Bollywood film, a historical drama.
		The film was directed by Santosh Sivan and stars Shah Rukh Khan as Ashoka and Kareena Kapoor as Kaurwaki, a princess of Kalinga.
		The film embroiders clowns on several episodes in the life of the historical Ashoka, an early Indian ruler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asoka_(film) (491 words)

	Movie Review : Asoka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		To extend the boundaries of his empire, Asoka waged one of the bloodiest wars in the history with the neighbouring kingdom of Kalinga, leaving it ravaged and devastated.
		ASOKA, one of the most expensive films made in the recent times, is aimed at a niche audience — the upper crust.
		Asoka's transition to a messenger of peace -- spreading the light of Buddhism -- has also not been depicted, which is so vital in a film on the life and times of Emperor Asoka.
	www.indiafm.com /reviews/01/asoka/index.shtml (683 words)

	Asoka
		Asoka is one of the hottest films of the moment and now I wish I had done more write ups when casually visiting the sets.
		Asoka is all set to be released on October 26th and the music has just been unleashed on the world to a great response.
		Asoka is about the transformation of a youth from a son to an obsessive romantic, consumed with ambition.
	www.asiangigs.com /asokaabout.htm (1261 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The film, meant to portray 'the little known side of Emperor Asoka and his spiritual evolution", is just another love story set in the Mauryan times.
		Asoka, on the other hand, is forced to live as a commoner because his mother (Subhashini Ali) is worried for her son's safety due to the power struggle between him and his step brothers.
		Asoka now embraces the violent way and goes about conquering more lands to prove that he is the Emperor.
	www.mtvindia.com /mtv/movies/reviews/asoka (843 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Pacific Rim Film Festival : 'Asoka'
		Asoka is loosely based on the life of Chandragupta Maurya's grandson, King Asoka, the bloodthirsty ruler of Magadha who famously renounced violence and turned to Buddhism, spreading its wisdom across his lands.
		Asoka begins with the legendary moment when emperor Chandragupta Maurya throws down his sword to become a Jain ascetic, warning his grandson that the weapon is a demon and only wants blood.
		The journey herein emphasized is one from innocence to bloodlust and coveting the throne.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/10.05.05/prff-asoka-0540.html (445 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Asoka statues unearthed in India
		Dr DR Pradhan, secretary of the state-run Institute of Maritime and South East Asian studies, told the BBC the ancient inscription translates as: "The statue was unveiled by the auspicious hands of Asoka".
		Asoka is believed to have been so horrified by the loss of life in that war that he renounced violence and vowed to spread the message of peace far and wide.
		The latest film of the king's life, which has just gone on worldwide release, is a typical Bollywood epic packed with songs, fight sequences and emotive love scenes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/world/south_asia/1646907.stm (384 words)

	Film and television institute of India \| Film Institutes in India \| Pune India Film and Television Institutes
		In the 42nd Oberhausen Short Film Festival, the diploma film 'In Short' directed by Kuntal Bhogilal was screened in the competition section.
		Two diploma films, 'The Rebel' by Ms Rajashree and 'A Brief Journey' by Ms Kavita Joshi were shown in the 6th International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel.
		The 21st Film Appreciation Course was conducted jointly by FTII and the National Film Archives of India in the FTII campus from May 27 to June 2.
	www.bollywoodvillage.com /filminstitutes.asp (665 words)

	Indiainfo: Bollywood masala:News Bytes-Shahrukh's Asoka at the Venice film festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Asoka, one of the most ambitious bollywood films with a cast of 7,000 extras, tells the story of the ruler of the Mauryan dynasty (322-185 bc) who waged the bloodiest of wars in India.
		Asoka is a "very shakespearean" story complete with political intrigue and family disputes to which international audiences would be able to relate, a report said.Khan has acknowledged that Bollywood's songs and dances could "sometimes seem illogical" to first-time audiences.
		The film, scheduled to be released on October 26, has already caught the attention of his holiness, the Dalai Lama, who will see it in Paris.
	movies.indiainfo.com /newsbytes/asoka.html (187 words)

	Asoka - A Review
		After watching the film, the clarification holds because one can see that at the very basic story level, the film was intended to be an intimate affair.
		To make this intimate fictionalized film on the most ostentatious hero of Indian history sure was a tough challenge from the word go.
		Asoka is touted to be the most aggressively marketed film to overseas and its fair to say that it is a film that deserves it.
	www.upperstall.com /asokare.html (989 words)

	Asoka
		'Asoka' (pronounced throughout the film as 'A-shok') tells the story of a 3rd century BC Indian prince, Asoka, who is exiled from his kingdom and travels disguised as a simple warrior.
		Even before the main part of the film starts we are told that eleven attempts have been made on his life, and a number are made during the course of the film.
		Asoka wears his hair loose and, oddly enough, the closest figure I can think of is the mounted elf general in the Peter Pig army pack.
	www.btinternet.com /~alan.catherine/wargames/asoka.htm (751 words)

	Asoka (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Asoka's mother orders him to leave Magadha to save his life, and while traveling, he meets Princess Kaurwaki (Karriena Kapoor) and her brother, Prince Aryan (Sooraj Balaji) from Kalinga, who are undercover and protected by General Bheema (Rahul Dev).
		When Asoka's mother is killed by a man of Susima, Asoka becomes mad, kills all his evil brothers but Sugatra, who escapes to Kalinga.
		Asoka decides to conquer Kalinga, but in the end, he concludes that he has not built an empire, but conquered only corpses and destroyed everything, and he decides to spread love and the Buddhism with his son and his daughter.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0249371 (524 words)

	BBC News \| FILM \| Jittery market greets Bollywood film
		Asoka, released on Friday, is Bollywood's first attempt to capture the life and times of India's greatest emperor who ruled the country more than 2000 years ago.
		Historical subjects are the new rage in the Indian film industry and two of the biggest Bollywood hits this year have both been period films.
		It is also about Asoka the son, the lover-boy and finally the man who gave up arms to embrace Buddhism and become a messenger of peace.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/1619873.stm (409 words)

	Asoka (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The film is a highly fictionalized account of his rise to power and culminates with the massive battle fought against the Kalinga army.
		The action is relegated to a supporting role in the film, behind the romance between the two leads and the drama of Asoka's emotional grief.
		Asoka's family sword becomes a representation of the evil that leads him to bring down his reign of destruction on the people of Kalinga.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/asoka.htm (956 words)

	Movie Review : Asoka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Asoka ascended the throne of the powerful kingdom Maghada in the 3rd century B.C. To extend the boundaries of his empire, Asoka waged one of the bloodiest wars in history with the neighbouring kingdom of Kalinga, leaving it ravaged and devastated.
		Asoka took on the name of “Pawan” when he was with her so that she would not know that he was a Prince.
		Asoka returns to his kingdom and wages a war against another territory where he is injured severely.
	www.indiafm.com /reviews/01/asokatoronto/index.shtml (1506 words)

	Bollywood Best - hindi cinema movie reviews - Asoka - Shahrukh Khan Kareena Kapoor Hrishitaa Bhat
		The film attempts to follow the journey of Asoka from "monarch to monk"(though there is no evidence he become a monk) as is outlined in the beginning.
		The struggle for the throne between Asoka (Shah Rukh Khan) and his stepbrother Sushema, his father Bindusara's favourite (Ajith Kumar) and the subsequent interregnum before Ashoka's coronation is a sketchy and ambiguous narration.
		The film is visually good - particularly some scenes - outdoor locales and the war and 'kalaripayattu' but the cinematography is not as stunning as in Sivan's Terrorist or his other efforts.
	www.idlebrain.com /mumbai/reviews/mr-asoka.html (665 words)

	mybindi.com - Toronto International Film Festival
		With Asoka, Sivan details the life story of one of the most important figures in Indian history in a monumental fashion, but never loses the sense of intimacy and emotional accuracy that characterized his earlier films.
		Incorporating a love story, palace intrigues and the sweeping impact of one man's personal development, the film is an account of events that have risen to the level of myth across the course of millennia.
		The emperor of the Mauryan dynasty from 274 B.C. to 232 B.C., Asoka is renowned for having brought most of India under one unified sway and for raising Buddhism from obscurity to the level of a wide-reaching religion.
	www.mybindi.com /arts-entertainment/whatson/tiff-asoka.cfm (495 words)

	KODAK: Santosh records the changing seasons of life while filming Asoka
		Sivan's most recent credit as a director/cinematographer is Asoka, a biographical story of a renowned emperor who reigned circa 232 B.C. Asoka's life follows a course of good to evil, brought on by witnessing the savagery and destruction of war.
		Eventually, Asoka, portrayed by the actor Shah Rukh Khan, renounces war and violence and devotes himself to spreading the teachings of Buddhism.
		Since the film deals with transitions in a person's life, I tried to shoot it while seasons were changing--capturing the monsoons, mist and nature in its changing form.
	www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2001/asoka.shtml (711 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Asoka (2001)
		This film was great it conveyed various emotion and shows the true talent of our Indian cinema not the stereotypical way it is portrayed by the media as song and dances around trees.
		Asoka is not a "movie" but an art form in the tradition of operatic Greek tragedies with a gothic flavour, a rich collage of breathtaking visuals.
		The film lacks authenticity and is hardly a period film.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Reader_Review/0,4163,-90189,00.html (5256 words)

	ReachoutHyderabad.com: Review of "Asoka" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As Asoka begins his journey as a commoner, assuming an identity that helps him merge with the ordinary man quite easily as Pawan, he sets his eyes on the beautiful princess of Kalinga, Kaurwaki (Kariena Kapoor), who is on the run along with her uncrowned brother, child prince Arya, and her senapati (Rahul Dev).
		Kaurwaki and Asoka are separated as she goes hiding and a devastated Asoka meets Devi (Hrishitaa Bhatt) and marries her.
		Asoka undergoes a change of heart when his mother is killed one day and he turns evil to avenge her death.
	www.reachouthyderabad.com /moviereviews/asoka.htm (625 words)

	Pacific Rim Film Festival 2005
		A Bollywood film extraordinaire, this lavish epic is loosely based on the life of the legendary Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. king of India whose life ranged from king to commoner and finally to spiritual leader as the first Buddhist emperor.
		The main star of the film, however, is the Himalayan mountains themselves: viewers watch spellbound as the herders make their annual trek through treacherous gorges and dizzying mountain passes.
		This film was made possible through interviews with survivors and their descendants, as well as unprecedented access to the Sugihara family and their personal home movies, photos and papers.
	www.pacrimfilmfestival.org /films2005.html (1889 words)

	indya.com - Asoka
		The movie also had the talented actress Shraddha Nigam who played the part of Rani, a girls favoured by Asoka's mother Dharma to be his bride in the film but her scenes were edited since they did not gel with the theme of the story.
		Asoka, being one of the most ambitious Bollywood projects, has a cast of 7,000 extras.
		The script of Asoka was narrated to Shah Rukh Khan by Sivan when he was shooting the Chaiyya Chaiyya song atop the train as a cinematographer of Dil Se.
	www.indya.com /asoka/trivia.htm (192 words)

	:: oslo international film festival 2002::
		Asoka is a great epic tale of one of India's most important historical figures.
		The film follows his life from a young boy to a mighty warlord and further on to his non-violence journey along the enlightened path of Buddhism.
		Santos Sivan graduated from the Cinematography programme at the Film and Television Institute of India in 1984.
	www.oslofilmfestival.com /2002/movie.asp?movieID=25 (223 words)

	DDMcD's No Frills Review: ASOKA
		This epic film by Santosh Sivan (The Terrorist) follows the historic emperor Asoka as he brutally unites ancient India through warfare, then recants and proselytizes Buddhist philosophy after seeing the errors of his power hungry ways.
		Historically, not much is really known about Asoka the man. The way his life and personality are portrayed here, we feel that we are catching a glimpse of a very, very different time.
		Finally, this film contains some of the most haunting and terrible visions of a post-battle landscape as Asoka wanders the battlefield of Kalinga, sees Hell in the horrors he has unleashed, and glimpses the Buddha at the moment of his greatest sorrow.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze4pkpq/DVD/Asoka.htm (439 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Asoka [2001]: DVD: Shahrukh Khan,Kareena Kapoor,Danny Denzongpa,Rahul Dev,Hrishitaa Bhatt,Gerson Da ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The film Asoka takes the fantasy, and fantasizes about it, creating a whole new level of fantasy, which is the story the film follows.
		The film is a standing testimony as to why India that was at the helm of the world during Asoka's period is now part of the third world.
		Asoka, at the end of this bloody war, sees jarringly for the first time all the death, despair and hatred he has caused, and finally turns to a life of non-violence and peace, spreading Buddhism across the world.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Asoka-Shahrukh-Khan/dp/B00005UJAS (1853 words)

	Amazon.com: Asoka: DVD: Santosh Sivan,Shahrukh Khan,Kareena Kapoor,Danny Denzongpa,Rahul Dev,Hrishitaa Bhatt,Gerson Da ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The film "Asoka" is concerned with Asoka's rise to the throne of India.
		Asoka (Shah Rukh Khan) is one of several royal brothers--all sons of the ruler of the kingdom of Magadha in India.
		The film's themes, however, also raise many thought provoking questions about duty, violence and revenge, and since this is the story of how Asoka became a great emperor, the film charts his maturity through piviotal events which occur in his life.
	www.amazon.com /Asoka-Santosh-Sivan/dp/B00005RYLQ (2588 words)

	The Hindu : A regal canvas re-created
		Slated for release (it is being dubbed in Tamil) on October 26, "Asoka" was well-received at the recently concluded Venice (the closing film) and Toronto film festivals.
		The film is a fusion of fact, fiction and legend, of a ruler whose existence came to light only in 1915.
		The film found famous admirers in John Malkovich, who was part of the jury at Cairo, Buddhadeb Dasgupta ("he knocked on my hotel door in Hyderabad to laud me") and most recently, writer Michael Ondatjee, who is incidentally talking to him about filming his novel "Anil's Ghost".
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/10/19/stories/09190221.htm (1269 words)

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