![]() ![]() It begins with his career as a General in Takshashila and ends with the bloody conquest of the Kalinga.Įmperor Chandragupta Maurya, grandfather of Asoka, of the Maurya empire, has decided to embrace Jainism and abdicate the throne of the empire in favour of his son Bindusara. The film chronicles the early part of the life of Emperor Asoka. Īt the 47th Filmfare Awards, Asoka received 5 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director (Sivan) and Best Actress (Kapoor), and won Best Cinematography (Sivan). ![]() Īsoka was widely screened across the United Kingdom and North America, and was also selected for screening at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews. The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Samrat Asoka. It was originally released as Ashoka: The Great in India. The screenplay was written by Santosh Sivan and Saket Chaudhary and the dialogue by Abbas Tyrewala. It was produced by Khan, Juhi Chawla and Radhika Sangoi. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan as the titular character alongside Ajith Kumar (in his first and only Hindi film to date), Kareena Kapoor, Hrishitaa Bhatt, and Danny Denzongpa. It is a dramatized version of the early life of emperor Asoka, of the Maurya Empire, who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BCE. Aśoka is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language epic historical drama film directed and co-written by Santosh Sivan. ![]()
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