MAHABHARATA already controversial |
The announcement of a Malayalam film touted as India`s most expensive film with a Rs 1,000-crore budget featuring Malayalam superstar Mohanlal in the lead role has already entered into a big controversy. The movie is based on a well-acclaimed Malayalam novel, Randamoozham, which means the second turn. The novel is considered to be a masterpiece by author, MT Vasudevan Nair, who will also be doing the screenplay for the film. The 1984 novel, which has two translations in English with titles Second Turn and Bhima: Lone Warrior, has won many awards in Malayalam. The novel is based on the author`s interpretation of events and characters of the epic Mahabharata through the eyes of Bhima. The author takes the liberty of straying away from the original story line of the epic. He is known for questioning the very nature of the good and the evil — by painting heroes as villains and vice-versa. Bhima, the central character in Randamoozham is not the mighty, respected, loved by his own and dreaded by the enemy, unlike the Bhima of the epic Mahabharata. If the Bhima from Mahabharata is the epitome of strength, power and victory, MT`s Bhima is completely opposite! The author believes that the whole world is doing injustice to Bhima by making him a second in everything in his life — be it Draupadi`s love, or the respect he commanded among the Pandavas.
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