The Film Adi Shankaracharya

[Veeranarayana Pandurangi]

i do not know about discssion on it. but it is not the only sankrit cinema.
G.V. Aiyer the director of Adi
Shankaracharya did many such things. Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya,
Bhagavadgita. recent film in samskrit is something based on candragupta and
made by some jaipur based director

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I've just run across, entirely by accident, the feature film Adi
> Shankaracharya, which boasts that it is the first (maybe only?) feature
> film
> in Sanskrit. Has this film been discussed somewhere by indologists, or
> others especially from the point of view of the Sanskrit? I confess I only
> watched a few minutes of it, and while there's a lot of chanting of
> classical texts, there is also some speaking ("conversational Sanskrit?")
> as
> well (is this the place to confess?--thank goodness for the subtitles!). I
> am also curious whether the film-makers tried to get the cultural contexts
> right....
>
> Best regards, Jonathan Silk
> --
> J. Silk
> Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
> Postbus 9515
> 2300 RA Leiden
> Netherlands
>



-- 
Veeranarayana N.K. Pandurangi
Head, Dept of Darshanas,
Yoganandacharya Bhavan,
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Samskrita University, Madau, post
Bhankrota, Jaipur, 302026.