I am feeling too lazy to write a full-length review post of the movie, Arjun - The Warrior Prince, the first animation movie by Walt Disney in India, and produced by UTV. The movie released on 25 May 2012, and got mostly 3 stars (out of 5). I watched the movie on the 27th of May, and well, despite very good quality graphics and animation, the movie itself falls far short of what could have been a great animation movie of an ancient epic and heroic character.
I rattled off a dozen or so tweets on my timeline, and am reproducing them here as a sort of a review of the movie.
http://thedisneyblog.com/2012/05/03/arjun-disneys-first-animated-film-from-india/
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© 2012, Abhinav Agarwal. All rights reserved.
I rattled off a dozen or so tweets on my timeline, and am reproducing them here as a sort of a review of the movie.
http://thedisneyblog.com/2012/05/03/arjun-disneys-first-animated-film-from-india/
Arjun: The Warrior Prince - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
@utvmp
Watched #Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation- very impressive graphics and quality of animation. The movie itself - 1/4 stars
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Terrible script; yes - they found a way to screw up a story as grand as the Mahabharata :-(
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Howlers!!! The game of dice was held in Indraprastha???
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Drona makes a habit of kicking his students. guru-shishya parampara, reinterpreted.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Shakuni is a fat, corpulent, out-of-breath dwarf who rides a donkey. Real subtle.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Dhritarashtra a bald dwarf. Sigh.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Howlers: Draupadi asks Arjun to promise her the destruction of the Kuru clan.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Susharma of Trigarta is a jungle-dwelling savage. What were you guys smoking?
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Anyone see the resemblance between Duryodhana & Victor Bannerjee from Shyam Benegal's Kalyug?
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. KhandavaPrastha/IndraPrastha on the banks of a river: BIG Lord of the Rings hangover.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Why wait for Kurukshetra? Bheeshma (not Drona) orders the Chakravyuha formation at Virata.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Arjuna as Brihanalla is Uttar's nanny. Princess Uttara may have something to say about that.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Krishna tells Arjun about "karmanye vadhika raste", Arjun repeats it verbatim to Uttara. huh!
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - 1/4 stars. Gratuitous animal cruelty; the bird on the tree and the fish are shown as being alive. Why???
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - wonder whether the exaggerated caricatures from the Mahabharata are not meant for the western palate. Pity.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
#Arjun by UTV @DisneyAnimation - wonder whether the exaggerated caricatures from the Mahabharata are not meant for the western palate. Pity.
— Abhinav (@abhinavagarwal) May 28, 2012
© 2012, Abhinav Agarwal. All rights reserved.
