His parents married in the face of opposition from a personage no less than the greatest Safavid King of Iran, Shah Abbas. He was their first child, and when he was born his parents' joy knew no bounds.
The astrologers, however, played spoilsport. The child was promised for great things, they said, but for that it was essential to follow a stipulation: The child couldn't meet his father till he was twelve years old.
the caveat was still followed down to the letter. But when finally the time came for the child to meet his sire, the latter passed away after a brief illness.
So the child succeeded to his father's throne without ever having met his father.
Meet Abdullah, the seventh Qutb Shahi Sultan of Golconda.
Great read for those interested in South Indian condiments. Had no idea about the diversity & multiplicity of styles and processed of #Telugu#Avakaya, a type of #pickle made from raw #mango.
Unfortunately, the hype was just that — hype, pure and simple, and the movie was very disappointing in multiple different ways.
The CGI seems to have taken a lot of its cues (at least in terms of buildings and landscape) from “Lord of the Rings” (the TV series) and “Game of Thrones” and sometimes looked rather amateurish.
The CGI character designs (at least the ones I saw) were laughable since it looked as if they used stock skeletons to create demons.
The story was a chaotic mishmash since they just land you in the middle of the “Ramayan” with a disjointed infodump at the start to tell you what happened before the movie started. The characters aren’t fleshed out and if you came in without any knowledge of the “Ramayan” you’d have no clue as to what was going on …