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".
Contents
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)
Production
The live-action parts of the film were shot in Hyderabad and some other parts of Andhra Pradesh.
Soundtrack
"Alvida" – Suresh Wadkar, Sadhana Sargam
"Falsafi O Falsafi" – Ravindra Jain
"Ishq Abhi Tak Zinda Hai" – Farid Sabri, Vinod Sehgal
"Jiya Jaye Amma" – Asha Bhosle, Roop Kumar Rathod
"Kaise Kahan Kab Ho Gaya" – Suresh Wadkar
"Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Meri Jaan" – Rekha Bhardwaj
"Prem Diwani" – Asha Bhosle
"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".