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Bhagmati – The Queen of Fortunes
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poster
Directed byAshok Kaul
Written byAshok Kaul
StarringTabu
Milind Soman
Music byVishal Bhardwaj
CinematographySameer Arya
Peter Pereira
Thomas A. Xavier
Production
companies
Release date
  • 26 August 2005 (2005-08-26)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Bhagmati – The Queen of Fortunes is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language partly-animation film written and directed by Ashok Kaul, and it is the first Indian film which is almost two-thirds animated, with "live actors" doing the rest.[1] The film is based on the love story between Prince Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah of Hyderabad and Bhagmati.[2]

At 2 hours and 40 minutes, the film was billed as "the world's longest animated film that also has living characters".[3][4]

Plot[edit | edit source]

Cast[edit | edit source]

Soundtrack[edit | edit source]

  1. "Alvida" – Suresh Wadkar, Sadhana Sargam
  2. "Falsafi O Falsafi" – Ravindra Jain
  3. "Ishq Abhi Tak Zinda Hai" – Farid Sabri, Vinod Sehgal
  4. "Jiya Jaye Amma" – Asha Bhosle, Roop Kumar Rathod
  5. "Kaise Kahan Kab Ho Gaya" – Suresh Wadkar
  6. "Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Meri Jaan" – Rekha Bhardwaj
  7. "Prem Diwani" – Asha Bhosle
  8. "Suraj Ki Aag Mein" – Roop Kumar Rathod, Sujatha Mohan

Reception[edit | edit source]

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated the film one out of five stars and wrote, "On the whole, BHAGGMATI - THE QUEEN OF FORTUNES is a poor show".[7]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Mix 'n' match". India Today. 9 November 1998. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  2. Jha, Subhash K. (24 August 2005). "'I don't need Tabu to sell Bhaggmati'". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 6 February 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  3. "Toon first for India". Manchester Evening News. 12 January 2013.
  4. Dhawan, Himanshi (14 January 2002). "'Bhagmati-The Queen of Fortunes' billed India's first no-gags animated feature film". India Today.
  5. "rediff.com, Movies: The Milind Soman interview". rediff.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  6. https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/animation-action-in-debut-run/cid/1259154
  7. Adarsh, Taran. "Bhaggmati-The Queen of Fortunes Movie Review: BHAGGMATI - THE QUEEN OF FORTUNES is a poor show". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 3 June 2015.

External links[edit | edit source]

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