The Warrior (2001)
Country: GB/IND
Technical: col/scope 86m
Director: Asif Kapadia
Cast: Irfan Khan, Aino Annuddin, Puru Chibber
Synopsis:
A hired sword is converted to good and leaves the service of his lord, who sends his former comrades for his head.
Review:
Allegorical, mystic tale of a warrior changing his life through a recognition of the need for family, of which violence is the natural enemy. (All is brought about by his son's gift of an amulet to a local girl, while the father's gift of the paternal dagger to his son brings only misfortune.) It is concise and injects some strikingly mythic symbolism, including the equation of mountains with spiritual enlightenment; its adoption of a forgiving slant on what would normally be a tale of revenge signals a recognition, perhaps, of the need to bury old hatreds in our increasingly entrenched world.
Country: GB/IND
Technical: col/scope 86m
Director: Asif Kapadia
Cast: Irfan Khan, Aino Annuddin, Puru Chibber
Synopsis:
A hired sword is converted to good and leaves the service of his lord, who sends his former comrades for his head.
Review:
Allegorical, mystic tale of a warrior changing his life through a recognition of the need for family, of which violence is the natural enemy. (All is brought about by his son's gift of an amulet to a local girl, while the father's gift of the paternal dagger to his son brings only misfortune.) It is concise and injects some strikingly mythic symbolism, including the equation of mountains with spiritual enlightenment; its adoption of a forgiving slant on what would normally be a tale of revenge signals a recognition, perhaps, of the need to bury old hatreds in our increasingly entrenched world.
Country: GB/IND
Technical: col/scope 86m
Director: Asif Kapadia
Cast: Irfan Khan, Aino Annuddin, Puru Chibber
Synopsis:
A hired sword is converted to good and leaves the service of his lord, who sends his former comrades for his head.
Review:
Allegorical, mystic tale of a warrior changing his life through a recognition of the need for family, of which violence is the natural enemy. (All is brought about by his son's gift of an amulet to a local girl, while the father's gift of the paternal dagger to his son brings only misfortune.) It is concise and injects some strikingly mythic symbolism, including the equation of mountains with spiritual enlightenment; its adoption of a forgiving slant on what would normally be a tale of revenge signals a recognition, perhaps, of the need to bury old hatreds in our increasingly entrenched world.