2009 · action · fantasy · romance
Magadheera
Directed by S. S. Rajamouli2h 44m2009
A street-bike racer chances upon a woman and is struck by visions of a past life where they were both star-crossed lovers in a war-ridden kingdom 400 years ago, while the reincarnation of his romantic rival emerges with murderous intent.
Our read: Magadheera (2009) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · romance entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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