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What Cinema Misses About the Ramayana
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To capture Valmiki’s wonder on screen, filmmakers must look beyond the great battle and to the poignant love between Sita and Rama.
Yugo Sako’s 'Ramayana, The Legend of Prince Rama' came closest to ciematically capturing the tenderness of Sita and...
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Why India Can’t Get Its Epics Right on Screen
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A still from Peter Brook's 'The Mahabharata' (1989)
Every time Hollywood drops a blockbuster movie based on one of the foundational epics of the West, a collective groan seems to arise from a significant section of Indian cinephiles and the...
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Why We Really Watch Screen Adaptations of Ancient Epics
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A still from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
If you have read epic poetry from ancient Greece or India, whether in translation or in the original, you’d know that the heroes in these great epic poems have their vulnerabilities. I’m not...
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