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Dr. Rajkumar: Challenge to Wealth

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Sundays with Dr. Rajkumar series resumes with Sampattige Saval (Challenge to Wealth). I am seriously committed to reviewing a film every sunday and will try my best to keep to this routine.
The enduring image is from an opening scene of Sampattige Saval, when Rajkumar comes on the screen sitting on a buffalo, the much [...]

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Dr. Raj Kumar: Babhruvahana - 3 (1977)

Friday, December 9, 2005

Part 3
Babhruvahana perhaps is most well known for its great lines and catchy songs, both romantic as well as battle field exchanges. I remember watching the film as a six year old boy and then reenacting scenes with my friends, Jaideep and Sanjay, (I haven’t seen either of them since our battle games more than [...]

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Dr. Raj Kumar: Babhruvahana - 2 (1977)

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Part 2
There is something qualitatively different and even magical in the dramatic reinterpretation of epic episodes in South Asian performative traditions, be it music dance, dance-drama, theatre, folk performers or even film in recent times. I am more familiar with (and will focus on here) the south Indian performative traditions, especially theatre (professional, [...]

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Dr. Raj Kumar: Babruvahana - 1 (1977)

Monday, November 28, 2005

Part of the Sundays with Dr. Rajkumar series, which begins with the mythological Babhruvahana. Soon I hope to write a profile of Dr. Rajkumar but until then be satisfied with this and this.

Part 1
The first time Babhruvahana sees his parents side by side is in the battlefield, when his mother Chitrangada volunteers to [...]

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