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Adi Shankaracharya (1983)
Absolute Bliss - A Gem among the movies
DON'T MISS THIS MOVIE AT ANY COST. If you like classics, this would be at the top your list.
No words can describe the bliss you'd enjoy after watching this movie. This movie about Advaita and Sankara comes with a screenplay and characterization that is completely different from the run-of-the-mill movies and easy-to-swallow story lines. Interpretation is left to the viewer and whichever way viewer interprets, he/she ends up in understanding Advaita!
G V Iyer's idea of personifying Wisdom and Death as Sankara's friends, to me, is the best part of the film. It takes the viewer into a sublime world. The abstract Advaita explained the best way! Vedic Hyms, music is excellent (Balamuralikrishna has done a good job).
A special mention for the locations. Amazing locales. Be it Narmada in full flow or the ascetic caves, G V Iyer has done a terrific groundwork to identify and use the perfect locales.
All actors lived with their characters. It is a music to ears while listening to dialogues in Samskrit.
Only sore point of the movie was the production quality. I wish this movie is remade with better cinematography, cameraman. Pity and shame that there was no big financial support in 1983 for this first ever Samskrit movie. And you don't get the DVD for this movie in India. It is only available in US market. Why?