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- 2007
- Not Rated
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- 1 h 45 m
- 2007
- Not Rated
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- 1 h 45 m
Summary The aging guard of a powerless kingdom oversees a time of turmoil when the queen dies and the prodigal prince returns from London.
Directed By: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Written By: Abhijat Joshi, Swanand Kirkire, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- 2007
- Not Rated
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- 1 h 45 m
- 2007
- Not Rated
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- 1 h 45 m
Eklavya: The Royal Guard
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Summary The aging guard of a powerless kingdom oversees a time of turmoil when the queen dies and the prodigal prince returns from London.
Directed By: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Written By: Abhijat Joshi, Swanand Kirkire, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
69
50% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
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2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Something about Eklavya: The Royal Guard suggests a lost film by David Lean. With some muted echoes of "Hamlet." And a whiff of "Rigoletto."
Eklavya contains only one song sequence, a lovely set piece for leading lady Vidya Balan (Salaam-e-Ishq), but it embraces the imperatives of dynastic family melodrama as fervently as any classic of Bollywood’s golden age. This is robust storytelling, with blood and thunder pumping through its veins, and real whiskers on its face.
The pic often plays like a Cliffs Notes version of a longer movie: Pacing and continuity aren't choppy, but there's enough material here for a full-length drama that would go deeper into the characters and their backgrounds. Eklavya is good as it is, but lacks tragic heft.
The main tribute in Guard, however, is to Mr. Bachchan, an aging Bollywood monument (and father of the rising actor Abhishek Bachchan), whose sunken, heavy-lidded eyes, grizzled countenance and noble bearing indisputably convey the presence of a seasoned star.
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Production Company
Vinod Chopra Productions
Release Date Feb 16, 2007
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline The Royal Guard
Awards
Annual Central European Bollywood Awards, India
• 1 Nomination
Stardust Awards, India
• 1 Nomination
