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‘Asura’ series review: Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with another messy family drama
4 days, 20 hours ago

‘Asura’ series review: Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with another messy family drama

The Hindu  

If one were to parse through the work of Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, it would be akin to sneaking into various family albums. Though vague with its message, the letter pointedly asks “Is it really happiness, for women like us to live without making waves?” Kore-eda moves the show forward, by sketching out the lives of the four sisters in …

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What to watch this week: ’Black Warrant’, ‘Asura’ and more
6 days, 3 hours ago

What to watch this week: ’Black Warrant’, ‘Asura’ and more

Live Mint  

Black Warrant Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh’s series is about a new jailer in Tihar in the 1980s. Starring Zahan Kapoor, Rahul Bhat, Anurag Thakur and Paramvir Cheema, based on the non-fiction book Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer by Sunetra Choudhury and Sunil Gupta. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera This film picks up where Den of Thieves left …

Den Of Thieves
HistoriCity | Jharkhand: A hinterland full of rich history
2 months ago

HistoriCity | Jharkhand: A hinterland full of rich history

Hindustan Times  

In the popular imagination, Jharkhand is perceived as a hotbed of Naxalite-Maoist activities, it is known as well as the Ruhr of India, a reference to Germany’s resource-rich area, with large mineral, coal and timber reserves. This lends the predominantly state to be plagued by a ‘resource curse’ i.e., where it contributes almost 40% of India’s mineral resources, but lags …

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Trinamool MP compares PM Modi to 'asura', slams Foreign Minister Jaishankar
1 year, 10 months ago

Trinamool MP compares PM Modi to 'asura', slams Foreign Minister Jaishankar

India Today  

Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar on Tuesday compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to an "asura" while hitting out at External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. Jaishankar had said his father K Subrahmanyam was removed as Union Secretary in 1980 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The Foreign Minister added that his father was superseded during the Rajiv Gandhi period …

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The elusive amrita churning of the ocean
2 years, 5 months ago

The elusive amrita churning of the ocean

The Hindu  

The earliest story of the grand churning of the ocean of milk, samudra-manthan, for the nectar of immortality, amrita, is found in the Mahabharata. There is no artwork in India to match the grand Angkor Wat corridor in Cambodia that shows devas and asuras holding the serpent-king Vasuki with Vishnu overseeing the entire enterprise. In the story of samudra-manthan, Vishnu …

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China's most expensive fantasy epic film Asura pulled after disastrous opening weekend at box office
6 years, 5 months ago

China's most expensive fantasy epic film Asura pulled after disastrous opening weekend at box office

Firstpost  

Producers are reportedly planning to rework Asura and release it again at a later date Beijing: China’s most expensive fantasy epic film Asura has been pulled from cinemas after a dismal opening weekend, a media report said on 17 July. Unless the film achieves much greater success the second time round, Asura’s $105 million loss would make it one of …

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Set to stun
6 years, 6 months ago

Set to stun

China Daily  

Asura is set in a fictional world, and more than 1,800 crew members from 35 countries worked on the big-budget Chinese production. With its staggering budget, huge international crew and a stellar cast, Chinese fantasy epic Asura has ambitions to rival any Hollywood blockbuster, Xu Fan reports. With a staggering budget of 750 million yuan and an international crew of …

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Set to stun
6 years, 6 months ago

Set to stun

China Daily  

Asura is set in a fictional world, and more than 1,800 crew members from 35 countries worked on the big-budget Chinese production. American actor Matthew Knowles, who stars as Rawa, the biggest and strongest warrior of the rebel force in the film, recalls he was stunned when he first walked into a film set in North China's Hebei province in …

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