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Eklavya - The Royal Guard

Eklavya - The Royal Guard (2007)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (3,197 ratings)

After a seven-year self-imposed exile from cinema, acclaimed filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra returns to the director's chair for this tale about a Royal Guardsman and expert marksman whose loyalty to the crown is the stuff of legend. Eklavya (Amitabh Bachchan) lives for one reason and one reason… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Classics
In Theaters
Feb 16, 2007 Wide
On DVD
Feb 20, 2007
Eros Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Derek Elley, Variety

    Strongly cast tale of royal scheming, family skeletons and healthy slaughter is an involving mood piece.

  • John Anderson, Newsday

    This stirring dramatic feature by Kashmiri director Vidhu Vinod Chopra marries its varied elements -- modernity and classicism, current-day India and its feudal past, contemporary corruption and blood tradition -- in a coherent and propulsive fashion.

  • Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

    Here's a robustly unassuming and entertaining Bollywood melodrama starring Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt, set in a romanticised contemporary Rajasthan.

  • David Chute, L.A. Weekly

    This is robust storytelling, with blood and thunder pumping through its veins, and real whiskers on its face.

  • Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

    Not your typically silly Bollywood offering, this relatively short Indian saga is pretty to look at, demonstrating with gentle humor how a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Ginny  


    This movie is impressive! I scowl at those people who have rated this yet do not have a geist of what theater or art is all about. A good cast, wonderful acting and a unique story. Majestic, classy, unique and a good mixture of the modern world and the old ways. Two thumbs up!!… More

  • Khris N


    Wow - another great Bollywood past MIX present flick with an AWESOME CAST - the legneds of the unites with some young guns to bring a mysterious movie about a Kingdoms's Royal Guard's devotion to duty and knowing that his time is cming to an end, so are the fragile secrets… More

  • Leo L


    Here's an interesting movie about a young prince who is forced to return home after the death of his mother. He comes to terms with responsibilities and the truth about his real father. As he tries to put life back on track, he realizes that he needs his father more than ever… More

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