In Swiss
cinemas from January 21st 2005
Cinedrome presents Subhash Ghai's adventurous love story with historical background starring Vivec Oberoi. Watch it in cinemas in Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, Luzern, Basel and Bern.
"Kisna –
The Warrior Poet" is the new movie of north Indian hit
producer and director Subhash Ghai. The film is set against the historical
background of 1940s pre-independence India and is about the young
and poor rural boy Kisna (Vivek Oberoi), who grew up in a region situated
on the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India. He seems to be
an ordinary native, but it turns out that he has the extra ordinary
traits of Lord Krishna, just as his name indicates (in the local dialect
"Krishna" is pronounced as "Kisna"). Kisna has
skills as a poet, but also as a warrior. He saves the British girl
Katherine (Antonia Bernath) from an enraged mob of nationalists which
are fighting for the country's independence. Katherine is the daughter
of a ruthless British Commissioner and as she is in highest danger
in those chaotic times, Kisna takes it upon himself to escort her
to the safety of the British High Commission in New Delhi. During
the adventurous journey across beautiful Indian landscapes a tender
attraction develops between Kisna and Katherine. Their love is challenged
not only by their different origin, but also because Kisna is engaged
to the innocent and beautiful Indian girl Laxmi (Isha Sharvani)... "Kisna" features wonderful historical locations and elaborate sets from the colonial period India, talented actors from India and the UK and a great soundtrack from Indian hit composers A.R. Rahman ("Lagaan") and Ismail Darbar ("Devdas").
Subhash Ghai,
the filmmaker responsible for 12 big Bollywood hits, not only produced
and directed "Kisna", it was him who has conceived the original
idea about a story set in the numbered last days of pre-independence
India. From the beginning he didn't want to put emphasis on the hatred
between some Indians and the colonialists, but wanted to show that
amongst the British too were people who loved and revered India. Vivek Oberoi
is one of the most popular young Hindi movie actors, who choses his
roles carefully: He acted in such exceptional movies like the stylistically
very interesting "Company" about the Bombay underworld and
two Mani Ratnam Stories which combined mainstream Bollywood elements
with social and political issues, "Saathiya" and "Yuva". The two leading female
actors are both newcomers, Antonia Bernath, selected
directly from a London drama school and Isha Sharvani,
a talented theatre artiste and dancer with the face of the ideal Indian
beauty. Kisna also features the
two renowned Indian actors Om Puri, who gained huge
popularity with his British film "East is East", and his
cousin Amrish Puri, who personated ideally villains
not only in countless Bollywood movies but also in the second "Indiana
Jones" film. Unfortunately "Kisna" is Amrish Puri's
last movie, as he passed away quite recently on January 12th 2005
in Mumbai.
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