Your thoughts on Asoka (editted to add review) - Page 6

Originally posted by: PinkPixie

i watched this movie like 20 times. and id still list it among my top ten favourite hindi movies. i have it on dvd and convince people to watch it too 😛. but maybe i like it so much cos im not indian and dont understand any wrong potrayals of culture history or whatsoever, but i still have to say i loved it . and it wasso good mostly because of kareena'sacting. i cant imagine anyone else as the fiesty warrior princess

Originally posted by: desigal90

That's great! I've noticed this trend quite often though. Most of the people who arent familiar with asoka's tale to begin with or dont have much knowledge of its history really loved the movie, perhaps because they took it for what it was.

But mostly, I think it was rejected because of historical inaccuracy, becuase most people who watched it wihtout that cultural bias were all praise!

Oh it definitely has its flaws, I'm not denying it. Like in one dialogue, a druankard man tells Srk taht he should guide the bail gaadi coz "peeke gaadi chalaana buri baat hoti hai", and that personally made me laugh placed in the context of that time. And it made me wonder if such dialogues were put in their purposely to draw similarities between the two time periods or were they just slip ups.

Sometimes I didnt understand the pure hindi, but the mitigated language in the other portions helped tons. No doubt, that hte movie was altered quite a bit to suit commercial purposes, especially with the item number. Hated it, was thrown in for no reason at all. And like someone else mentioned, hated Johnny Lever's standup comedy routine.

But for various other reasons, I thought the movie was very well made. Mainly dialogues (in some portions) cinematography, locations, acting (was a strength according to me), and the music.

Originally posted by: psychobalehead

Umm no, most of my friends who are non-Asian and have no knowledge of Indian history/hindi films disliked it as well. Thankfully, they watched this from the library DVD collection (I have yet to figure out what this crappy movie is doing in public libraries😳) and not the theatre. Besides the historical inaccuracy, there were other major problems with this movie.The acting was horrendous. Over acting to the max by both the leads. Not surprising to me ofcourse. And since I do watch Hindi films and have fairly good knowledge about Indian history, I'll have to say that historical inaccuracy wasn't the only problem. Did anyone notice the pattern of the dialogues? Sometimes they talked like they were in the 21st century and sometimes the language and dilect was very ancient! Like....hello! Can we at least expect some consistency! Also, it came across as a nonsensical skin flick, not a sensible film. There really was no need for the overshow of sexuality in that movie. And why was that item song place in there? The lyrics in that song were so horrible. Sure, I think RajLakshmi is hot and all, but poor girl was just wasted in that crappy, forgettable confused song!

I watched it in 2003, I'll have to watch it again to pinpoint its uncountable flaws!