The Legend of Kunal is an upcoming film based on the life of Kunal, the son of the Indian emperor

Emperor

An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife or a woman who rules in her own right...

 Ashoka

Ashoka

Ashok Maurya or Ashoka , popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca. 269 BC to 232 BC. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests...

. The movie will be directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi

Chandraprakash Dwivedi

Chandraprakash Dwivedi is an Indian film director and script writer, who is best known for directing the 1991 television epic Chanakya in which he also played the title role of the political strategist Chanakya...

 and star Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

, Tabu

Tabu (actress)

Tabu is an Indian film actress. She has mainly acted in Hindi films, though she has also starred in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali language films, as well as one American film...

, Arjun Rampal

Arjun Rampal

Arjun Rampal , born 26 November 1972, is an award-winning Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films, as well as a fashion model.- Film career :...

 and Amrita Rao

Amrita Rao

Amrita Rao is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.Beginning her career as a model, Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras...

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The film is the story of a strange and loving relationship between King Ashoka, played by Amitabh Bachchan, and his son Veera Kunal, played by Arjun Rampal. The film is set in 240 BC and starts when the emperor converted to Buddhism. Another angle to the film is Tabu's sexual attraction towards stepson Rampal who is married to Amrita Rao, playing Kanchanmala. While Tabu plays a woman suffering from sexual despair, the two spouses, Amitabh and Amrita are silent onlookers. Kunal, named after a Himalayan bird with beautiful eyes, was born a year before the great war of Kalinga ended. There are conflicting documentations on what happened to him during his growing up as a prince. He was blinded by one of King Ashokas wives, Tishyaraksha. A film Veer Kunal (1925) was a semi-fictionalized portrayal of Kunals life hu.

Cast

• Amitabh Bachan as King Asoka
• Tabu
  Tabu
  Tabu may refer to:*Tapu , a Polynesian cultural concept, from which the word taboo derives*Tabu , a 1931 award winning film*Tabu , Indian actress*Tabu Ley, Congolese musician...
  
   as Tishyaraksha
• Arjun Rampal
  Arjun Rampal
  Arjun Rampal , born 26 November 1972, is an award-winning Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films, as well as a fashion model.- Film career :...
  
   as Veera Kunal
• Amrita Rao
  Amrita Rao
  Amrita Rao is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.Beginning her career as a model, Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras...
  
   as Kanchanmala

External links

• The Legend of Kunal at Oneindia.in
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