Word: mahabharata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indians know the stargazers have not always been wrong. In January 1934, there was a conjunction of seven planets just before the great Bihar earthquake destroyed 13 Indian and Nepalese cities and killed 10,000 people. Seven planets also came together in 3102 B.C.-the year of the Mahabharata war, which the old Hindu epics say brought bloody death to millions of Indians and, with their deaths...
...WORLD OF APU. In this concluding section of a trilogy (Part One: Father Panchali; Part Two: Aparajito) by Satyajit Ray, contemporary India is born in suffering, and the film itself emerges as a modern Mahabharata, one of the most generously vital movies ever made...
...Each of the three lasts about an hour and 45 minutes and stands as a separate and complete cinema experience in its own right. But the moviemaker intended his trilogy ultimately to be seen and judged as a single immense discursive epic in the Indian tradition-as a modern Mahabharata...