Asoka - The way of the warrior

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Movie
German title Asoka - The way of the warrior
Original title Asoka
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 2001
length 152/169 (uncut TV version) minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Santosh Sivan
script Saket Chaudhary
Santosh Sivan
production Sanjiv Chawla
Mark Burton
Juhi Chawla
Shah Rukh Khan
music Anu Malik
camera Santosh Sivan
cut A. Sreekar Prasad
occupation

Asoka - The Way of the Warrior ( Hindi : अशोका , Aśokā ) is an Indian historical film by Santosh Sivan from 2001, which borrows from the life of King Ashoka . The film was dubbed into German three times.

action

The film tells the story of King Asoka, who lived in the 3rd century BC. Lived. Asoka's father, the king of Magadha , has different sons from different wives. His favorite wife is “Queen” and her son Susima is the likely candidate for the throne. Susima seeks after Asoka's life, whereupon Asoka's mother takes a vow of silence so that Asoka goes away to be safe from his brother.

On his journey, Asoka meets Kaurwaki, a princess from the Kingdom of Kalinga , who is on the run with her little brother Arya. Their parents were treacherously murdered and the two were brought to safety by a general in Kalinga's army. They are especially after Arya because he is the new ruler of Kalinga.

Asoka falls in love with Kaurwaki and becomes friends with little Arya. He calls himself Pavan (The Wind) and poses as a simple soldier in the Magadha Army.

When Kaurwaki learns that she was adopted as a baby and is not a princess at all, Pavan alias Asoka decides to marry her and thus - without her knowledge - make her a princess again. After the wedding, Asoka learns that his mother is sick and he leaves Kaurwaki and Arya behind, but promises to be back in two days.

When Pavan is gone, Kaurwaki and Arya run into trouble. To protect them, a woman and her son pretend to be the two of them and are killed immediately.

Asoka returns to find out that the two were murdered. He begins to go to war again for his father, the king, to enlarge the Magadha empire. He shows no mercy and makes mistakes for the first time. He is so badly wounded that he has to be nursed back to health in a Buddhist temple, but by losing his great love he has lost his will to survive. Nevertheless, thanks to the care of the Buddhist Devi, he survived. When she saves him from an attacker and appears full of blood at her own wedding, her fiancé rejects her. Out of gratitude and to save her honor, Asoka marries Devi.

Despite his restored physical health, there is a great deal of anger and hatred within him.

He returns home with his new wife, but there he clashes with his brother Susima again. This provokes Asoka to kill him, as that would be the only way to ascend the throne. Asoka hesitates and turns around. Susima is hit by a spear that is thrown by Asoka's friend, because Susima wanted to stab Asoka from behind.

The king dies and Asoka becomes the new ruler and he goes back to war and slaughters everything that comes in his way.

Devi flees from Asoka because she can no longer endure his cruelty, even though she is pregnant. Asoka finds out about the birth of his twins, a son and a daughter, but he does not find out where they are.

In the meantime, Kaurwaki and Arya are back in Kalinga and Arya is the new young ruler. The two still hope that Pavan (Asoka) will return to them. Little did they know that he thinks they are dead and that King Asoka is about to attack Kalinga.

It was only after the Battle of Kalinga, which resulted in thousands of deaths on both sides, that Asoka found out that Kaurwaki was still alive. He goes looking for her and only then does he realize what he's actually done. Horrified at himself, he looks for her among the dead on the battlefield. Arya also goes in search of Kaurwaki.

But Asoka doesn't find her, she finds him. When he approaches her, she pushes him back with a dagger and tearfully swears that he will not have won until he has killed her. Asoka breaks down and desperately asks for forgiveness. Between the two of them there is a first and tearful conversation, until they confess their still lasting love to each other and hug each other tightly.

"Pavan!", Arya, who was looking for Kaurwaki, is happy to find Pavan with her, but is sad that Asoka has stolen his entire land from him and Pavan has been gone for so long. Asoka promises that no one can steal his land from him and that he will never leave again. Arya is happy and suddenly collapses with the name "Pavan" on his lips. There are three arrows in his back. Asoka runs to him and, crying, finishes telling the story he started telling him a long time ago. After that, Arya dies.

... Asoka throws his sword into a raging river ...

... Asoka, who now rules his people with peace, his son and daughter spread the teachings of Buddhism to Egypt ...

background

Despite his merciless campaign, Ashoka is considered a hero in India, which is due to the fact that in the end he realizes his mistake and confesses to Buddhism. Such an epic drama that started around 300 BC. Plays in this form is rare for Indian cinema. However, historical facts form nothing more than the background in which the love story is embedded.

synchronization

Horst Geisler was responsible for the dialogue book and dialogue direction on behalf of Bavaria Synchron.

actor German speaker role
Shah Rukh Khan Pascal Breuer Asoka
Karan Dewani Kevin Iannotta Asoka (young)
Kareena Kapoor Shandra Schadt Kaurwaki
Danny Denzongpa Kai Taschner Virat
Rahul Dev Florian Halm Bheema
Hrishitaa Bhatt Andrea Wick Devi
Suraj Balaje Maximilian Belle Arya
Shilpa Mehta Hannelore Gray queen
Ajith Kumar Crock Krumbiegel Susima
Mithilesh Chaturvedi Walter von Hauff Kalinga Minister
Krishnan Jakob Riedl Assassin
Raghuvir Yadav Tobias Lelle Soldiers from Magadha
Johnny Lever Claus Brockmeyer
Gerson Da Cunha Ulf J. Söhmisch King Bindusara
Yogesh Sharma Josef Vossenkuhl farmers
Nissar Andreas Borcherding
Arun Singh Torsten Münchow
Jitendra Shriamali Milkman
Subhashini Ali Marion Hartmann Dharma
Vineet Sharma Oliver Mink Sugratra
CL Gurnani Gerd Rigauer Pundit
Suresh Oberoi Joachim Höppner Narrator (voice)

Awards

Reviews

"Magnificent Bollywood epic with a powerful battle panorama that enhances the historical story with the usual dance and song interludes."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Asoka - The Way of the Warrior. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used