On holiday from boarding school, young Ishvaku is fascinated by the bedtime story his mother relates to him—that of the warrior Ashwatthama, from the Mahabharata, whose blind vengeance provokes a curse from Lord Krishna, forcing him to wander the earth in eternal suffering. But the story is interrupted by a bandit raid in which Ishvaku’s mother is killed, and Ishvaku is packed off to his ancestral village in the Chambal Valley ravines of Central India. There he discovers a family in crisis, whose rituals, traditions and orthodox feudal values are becoming redundant. Meanwhile, Ishvaku’s own life take a strange turn, as a visiting sacred bull predicts that both wisdom and tragedy will soon come to him. In anticipation of such tragedy, Ishvaku attempts to escape into the magical realm of Ashwatthama
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Jamal Malik es un adolescente pobre de Bombay que, por un motivo desconocido, está concursando en la versión hindú del programa "¿Quién quiere ser millonario?". A punto de conseguir los 20 millones de rupias como premio mayor del concurso, el joven es interrogado por la policía, bajo la sospecha de estar haciendo trampas. Pero para cada una de las preguntas, Jamal tiene una respuesta...
