Jagadguru Adi Shankara
15/Aug/2013

Jagadguru Adi Shankara

Critics Review

3.00

Sri Jagadguru Adi Sankara - A pedestrian telling

Make no mistake. JK Bharavi set out with the lofty objective of stirring the youth of the country (to be sure, only a fraction of the Telugu-speaking population) into undertaking glorious nation-building task. That's why, he merrily portrayed Adi Shankaracharya as someone who comes across as an ABVP or an RSS pracharak! Creative liberty should not be used as a license. And that is exactly what creative freedom becomes in his hands in a number of places. A nonpareil jnani like Shankara is projected as possessing shades of pugnacity. (more)

Source: , IndiaGlitz.com

1.50

It's so bad that it's not even funny, watch it if you have time to kill and make sure the hall has seating comfortable enough to doze off.

You better read up a little about the life and time of Adi Shankaracharya before you venture out to the theatre to watch this movie. For if you are counting on the movie to fill you up on the details about the life and times of one of one of the most important proponents of the philosophy of Advaita, you'd only come back even more clueless(more)

Source: Karthik Pasupulate, Times Of India