Eklavya: The Royal Guard
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Eklavya: The Royal Guard

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Duration:
105 min
Genres:
Action | Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.2
Director:
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Details
Country: India
Release Date: 2007-02-16
Filming Locations: Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $812,262 (USA) (18 February 2007)
Gross: $1,100,762 (USA) (25 February 2007)
Cast
Actor
Character
Amitabh Bachchan
Eklavya
Sanjay Dutt
DSP Pannalal Chohaar
Jackie Shroff
Jyotiwardhan
Boman Irani
King Jaywardhan
Jimmy Shergill
Udaywardhan
Raima Sen
Princess Nandini
Sharmila Tagore
Queen Suhasinidevi
Parikshat Sahni
Omkar Singh
Adhir Bhatt
Pedicurist
Swanand Kirkire
Constable
Mita Vasisht
Eklavya's Mother (uncredited)
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Trivia
The assassination attempt sequence produced grave dangers for the cast during shooting. While running amidst a herd of 400 camels, Amitabh Bachchan got kicked in the head by an especially furious camel. It was only due to the heavy turban he was wearing that Bachchan was able to survive with nothing more than a little dizziness in his head. Jackie Shroff was standing only a few inches away from the rails when the train passed by him. For the attempt on the King, the action director, Tinnu Verma, decided to use a real bullet for authenticity, despite Boman Irani's misgivings about it. The bullet was off target and missed Boman's ear by a whisker.
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Vidhu Vinod Chopra spent five years working on the script.
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It was decided, early in production, to shoot the film in an actual palace for authenticity. Scouts were sent and went all over the state of Rajasthan with a tooth-comb to find the perfect location, but finally Vidhu Vinod Chopra, while skimming through a travel magazine, discovered a small picture of a fort in the hills of Devigarh. The fort, now a popular Heritage hotel, was perfect for exterior shots, but was obviously unsuitable for interior shots (as well as the obvious problems of guests, the interiors were modern-looking). So, scouting was undertaken again, but this time over the city of Jaipur. They were finally allowed to shoot interior scenes within the living quarters of the Jaipur Royal Family, thanks to costume designer Prince Raghavendra Rathore. Eklavya's cottage was the only set constructed from scratch. It was so well created that the hotel's guests and visitors assumed it to be a part of the hotel.
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Quotes
Harshwardhan: Give me the gun.
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Eklavya: [narrating the epic of Eklavya] Eklavya was a low caste warrior of unsurpassable skills. When Eklavya outclassed the royal princes in the art of archery, the man he had idolized as his mentor, the great guru Dronacharya, asked of him a terrible gift in return for his tutelage: his right thumb. The reason behind this macabre act was simple: Dronacharya did not wish to have his royal pupils be surpassed in archery by a person from the lower caste. Eklavya, confronted by this manifestly unjust demand, did not cringe. Believing that his mentor's command was his dharma and sacred duty, he severed his right thumb and offered it at the feet of his guru.
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Eklavya: Then I, the Royal Guard of this fort... and your father... must perform my sacred duty. Prepare to die.
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Photos from cast
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