Ashwatthama

Story

Synopsis

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

Director

Pushpendra Singh

Writers

Pushpendra Singh

Language

Hindi

Country

India, South Korea

Release date

15 October 2017

Ensemble

Cast

• Aryan

  Ishvaku

• Chitra sharma

• Sangeeta Kumari

  Mathu didi

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  Pushpendra Singh

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  Ashya

  Laali

• Anju Singh

• Pravendra Singh