Bhagmati – The Queen of Fortunes

Bhagmati – The Queen of Fortunes is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language partly-animation film written and directed by Ashok Kaul, and it is the first Indian film which is almost two-thirds animated, with "live actors" doing the rest. The film is based on the love story between Prince Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah of Hyderabad and Bhagmati.

At 2 hours and 40 minutes, the film was billed as "the world's longest animated film that also has living characters".

Plot

Cast

• Tabu as Shivaranjani/Bhagmati
• Milind Soman as Aseem/Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah
• Ashok Kaul as Professor Bhanupratap
• J. V. Somayajulu
• Mahima Chaudhry (voice)
• Hema Malini (cameo)

Soundtrack

1. "Alvida" – Suresh Wadkar, Sadhana Sargam
2. "Falsafi O Falsafi" – Ravindra Jain
3. "Ishq Abhi Tak Zinda Hai" – Farid Sabri, Vinod Sehgal
4. "Jiya Jaye Amma" – Asha Bhosle, Roop Kumar Rathod
5. "Kaise Kahan Kab Ho Gaya" – Suresh Wadkar
6. "Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Meri Jaan" – Rekha Bhardwaj
7. "Prem Diwani" – Asha Bhosle
8. "Suraj Ki Aag Mein" – Roop Kumar Rathod, Sujatha Mohan

Reception

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated the film one out of five stars and wrote, "On the whole, BHAGGMATI - THE QUEEN OF FORTUNES is a poor show".

See also

• List of Indian animated feature films

References

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