Ashoka the Hero is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language animated film written and directed by Gaurav Jain. The film was promoted as Indian's first animated superhero film.
An eight-year-old school going boy got some hidden magical powers, and he must use them to save mankind from evils.
The film's soundtrack is composed by Justin-Uday and its lyrics is written by Rekha Nigam.
This film was released in theatres on 7 January 2011, but it got 25 prints only.
Blessy Chettiar of DNA rated the film two out of five stars and wrote, "Ashoka makes for a light weekend watch with your child, but donâÂÂt expect to leave the theatre overwhelmed". Anna M. M. Vetticad dismissed the film, refused to rate it out of five and wrote, "The animation looks dated, the movement of the figures is stodgy. Good Indian animation films are hard to come by, but an overall low standard can hardly be an excuse!"
The film grossed an estimated at the box office, against a budget of and declared as "disaster" by boxofficeindia. It earned â¹50,000 on first day, â¹1,50,000 on first weekend and a sum of â¹2,10,000 on its first week.