My fixation with Ashok Bankers Ramayana continues.... I just started reading "Siege of Mithila" and its as enthralling as the first.
I wish there already was a movie based on Ashok Bankers books, but sadly there isn't yet. I read on his blog (readerswrite section) that there was interest from a US studio to turn the books into movies, but that seems to be falling through. Ashok seems fairly dissappointed with that turnout. All I can say is that JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings had to wait approximately 50 years for his work to be turned into a movie. His book was good, but he couldnt even get a publisher to publish his second volume, hence LoR ended up being the only one at that time.
Your books are brilliant and way way way ahead of their time, inspite of the story being thousands of years old. It will take a while for any moviemaker to be able to execute what you have envisioned. Hopefully, a day will come within my lifetime when it does happen!
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I think it would be better as an animated miniseries. Imagine a Gennady Tartarovsky Ramayan! It ould be teh awesome.
As always, I have to google at least one word in every sentence you write! But hey - if this guy did the clone wars - He might be just the man!! I will send him an email (I am hoping for a 1 % commission on the full deal)
I still would love to see like a serious serious kickass live action Ramayana!
My picks for characters
Rama - Hrithik Roshan
Lakshman - Farhan Akhtar
Ravana - Aamir Khan (digitally enhanced)
Sita - Priyanka Chopra (Cant get that damn tv actress Deepika out of my mind, also the soap ad)
Sage Vishwamitra - Amitabh (come on, Amitabh is always the man!)
Dasaratha - Boman Irani
Kaikeyi - Kiron Kher
Manthara - Ketaki Dave (Saans bhi kabhi woman)
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