Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Lion King, Aladdin, Finding Nemo and now Arnab Chaudhuri's Arjun: The Warrior Prince in Hindi....have nothing to regret as the realm of animation is proceeding towards an unprecedented perfection.
As I had been waiting for this animation to get released, it would be worth saying that my imagination has been justly fed to the brim, comapred to my last week's experience when I had accompanied my son to another animation, Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan. The latter was only a good quality time-spend with my family and the story ends there without registering anything in my mind. I never sat cross fingered awaiting the next move in the storyline while as I watched Arjun, despite knowing the story in detail, every single moment was larger than life and kept me eagerly waiting for the next moment.
I knew that Arjun is going to be something special as the poster of the movie itself speaks of the heightend imgination that is capable of creating a visual trance that befits the epic in our minds.
All the halls in the city have withdrawn the shows of Arjun the second week onwards while Chhota Bheem runs almost a parallel show compared the freshly released Rowdy Rathode, from the perspective of the number of shows. Thanks to the dawn of value education of merchedised blanket promotion in the minds of the children and their parents giving into that!!!!
Lets not blame the superficial parts of Arjun, that it did not have accessories to be sold for the children; instead, I prefer to call it the 'reality bites', for not doing enough business. Even better if I only see the brighter side of it, that it desrves as an art-work. Someday, if not the audience, the history of Indian Animation would remember this movie as a landmark with perfection the characters and the sets are fashioned and implemented, the way the dialogues are woven, the way the characters surpass and change the graphical figures and faces as imagined by us after reading the epic. And not to say the way the story has been told.....
As my intense interest in the movie drove me to read the reviews on it, and the points given by the various critics which never flowed beyond 3.5/05, I wonder that either the class of the critics is to underrate a perfect animation like this, or they are growing utopian. On the contrary when some drab hindi/english/bengali movies fetch the same rankings in their minds, the question really comes, as I hear, does, above art, the way you market the art matter? And apart from some TV promos, I agree if anything the movie lacks is its marketing.
Go and watch it, if you are lucky enough to get a chance in the midst of the 'rowdiness' of the upcoming movies. Even if you don't like a movie, try once and find out that what you see are more than you could have imagined. I think when its ends at the right time, quite abruptly, you shall wish for more.
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As I had been waiting for this animation to get released, it would be worth saying that my imagination has been justly fed to the brim, comapred to my last week's experience when I had accompanied my son to another animation, Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan. The latter was only a good quality time-spend with my family and the story ends there without registering anything in my mind. I never sat cross fingered awaiting the next move in the storyline while as I watched Arjun, despite knowing the story in detail, every single moment was larger than life and kept me eagerly waiting for the next moment.
I knew that Arjun is going to be something special as the poster of the movie itself speaks of the heightend imgination that is capable of creating a visual trance that befits the epic in our minds.
All the halls in the city have withdrawn the shows of Arjun the second week onwards while Chhota Bheem runs almost a parallel show compared the freshly released Rowdy Rathode, from the perspective of the number of shows. Thanks to the dawn of value education of merchedised blanket promotion in the minds of the children and their parents giving into that!!!!
Lets not blame the superficial parts of Arjun, that it did not have accessories to be sold for the children; instead, I prefer to call it the 'reality bites', for not doing enough business. Even better if I only see the brighter side of it, that it desrves as an art-work. Someday, if not the audience, the history of Indian Animation would remember this movie as a landmark with perfection the characters and the sets are fashioned and implemented, the way the dialogues are woven, the way the characters surpass and change the graphical figures and faces as imagined by us after reading the epic. And not to say the way the story has been told.....
As my intense interest in the movie drove me to read the reviews on it, and the points given by the various critics which never flowed beyond 3.5/05, I wonder that either the class of the critics is to underrate a perfect animation like this, or they are growing utopian. On the contrary when some drab hindi/english/bengali movies fetch the same rankings in their minds, the question really comes, as I hear, does, above art, the way you market the art matter? And apart from some TV promos, I agree if anything the movie lacks is its marketing.
Go and watch it, if you are lucky enough to get a chance in the midst of the 'rowdiness' of the upcoming movies. Even if you don't like a movie, try once and find out that what you see are more than you could have imagined. I think when its ends at the right time, quite abruptly, you shall wish for more.
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Will surely watch the movie.Am eager to.
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