Eklavya
Weird ex-royals living in a stuffy time warp, weird kinky secret from the past, and no electricity inside the palace. All those burning candles reminded me of Sanjay Bhansali’s heavy-handed haveli style, but Eklavya wants more. It wants to be an epic tale set in contemporary Rajasthan. But getting Boman Irani to quote Sonnet XVIII isn’t enough to make it a passionate Shakespearean drama of good and evil . There are a couple of moments when the film wonders whether to examine the legacy of feudalism in modern India, but then it turns away and ends with the aam janta coming together on a hillside to shout slogans hailing the young Rana whoever. The only good thing is that Vidhu Vinod Chopra wraps it all up in well under two hours.
