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Hanuman (1998 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Hanuman' is a 1998 French-Indian film directed by Frdric Fougea. The film stars Scottish actor Robert Cavanah and Indian actress Tabu in the lead roles. The film was dubbed in Danish as 'Hanuman og abernes tempel' with Henrik Koefoed, Vibeke Hastrup, and Sren Stter-Lassen providing the voices of Tom, Anja, and Ashok, respectively. The film was alternatively titled as 'The Monkey Who Knew Too Much'. It was the on-screen debut for Nithya Menon as a child artist.
Cast
* Monkey as Hanou
* Robert Cavanah as Scotsman Tom
* Tabu as Anja
* Nathalie Auffret as Alice, a French woman
* Javed Jaffrey as Ashok, a rich politician
* Tom Alter as Tom's father
* Baby Nithya Menen as Munna, Anja's younger sister
* Khalid Tyabji as Deva, a monk
* Sidney Kean as Roberto
* Jim Adhi Limas as Louis
* Govind Raoa as Anja's father
* Veena Sajnani as the minister
* Hans Kaushik as Young Sadhu
* Paul Bandey as the auctioneer
* Yatin Karyekar as a local police officer
; Voice Cast
* William Doherty as the narrator
Awards and nominations
Release
Carla Meyer of 'SF Gate' praised the performances of Cavanah and the monkeys and wrote that "By the last third, "'Hanuman'" has become a pretty predictable good-versus- evil story. But the picture's great beauty, and the obvious care that it took to make it, override the triteness". Dennis Harvey of 'Variety' similarly wrote that " Fougeas deft orchestration of two trained and 50 wild monkeys who make antic, appealing camera subjects nicely suspends disbelief, while his brisk pacing makes the somewhat formulaic script go down easily". On the contrary, Jesper Vestergard of 'CinemaZone' criticized the film and wrote that "The film's expression never manages to land a place where it can satisfy neither children nor adults, and the magical element of history with the monkey god never comes to its own".
References
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