Asoka review

This movie is about the story of greatest Indian emperor Asoka.This movie stars Sharukh khan as Asoka,Kareena kapoor as Kaurwaki and Hrishita Bhatt as Devi.King Bindusara of Magadha sends prince Asoka on exile.There Asoka meets princess Kaurwaki and falls in love with her.But Asoka is called back to Magadha.King Bindusara send Asoka to defeat a rebellion in Ujjain.Asoka is wounded by soldiers send by his brother Susima (Ajith Kumar).Asoka is brought to health by Devi a Buddhist girl.Asoka is forced to marry Devi in unusual circumstances.After few days Devi is pregnant.Susima comes to know of this and plots to kill Devi and her child,But Asoka's mother is killed.Asoka becomes enraged and kills all his brothers and Susima.Asoka becomes the king.He starts killing all his enemies and he comes to be known as Chanda Asoka,Asoka plans to conquer Kalinga as he knows that one of his brothers is hiding there and he also wants to make Kalinga a part of Magadha.In this movie Asoka reunites with his love princess Kaurwaki after Kalinga war and asks for forgiveness for attacking Kalinga.Asoka wins the war but he is very sad about the damage done by war and then he realizes that winning war is not real victory and he embraces Buddhism and follows non violence.

This movie is very nice.The direction and screenplay by Santosh Sivan are very good.The music composed by Anu Malik is excellent.Songs are melodious.This movie contains all elements like romance,action,sentiment etc.Sharukh has done excellent acting as King Asoka.The battle scenes in the movie are very nice and realistic.This is one of my favorite movies.