Troy-if you like epics . Review on Troy Movie

Saw Troy first day first show and wasn't disappointed. I like epics and the story of Illiad had fascinated me since I was a kid. The movie starts with the introduction of Achilles(Brad Pitt) as the greatest warrior alive and with a fight which lasted less than 30 seconds.

As the plot unfolds, we are exposed to other charecters in the play - the brave Hector (Eric Bana), the handsome Paris (Orlando Bloom), beautiful Helen (Diane Kruger), King Prium (Peter O'toole), Greek king Agamemnon(Brian Cox) and host of other charecters like Odyessus, Ajax, Menelaus etc.

Brad Pitt was good as Achilles but somehow his yankee accent didn't seem to quite synchronise with the epic times. Eric Bana, I found was wonderful maybe the charecter he portrayed that of Hector, brought the best in him. The story is about the queen (Helen of Sparta) who betrayed her husband(Menelaus) and fled to Troy (north west of present day Turkey) with prince Paris of Troy. To avenge his insult, Menelaus, the king of Sparta requested the help of the greedy and ambitious king Agamemnon who summoned his greatest warrior Achilles and other greek kings and princes to invade toy and bring back Helen.

Hector as the prince of Troy and heir to the throne prepared to defend Troy as a 'thousand ships' apporoached the beaches of Troy. Well I don't want to spoil the movie by giving too much of the story, but there are some battle scenes which are worth your money like Paris vs. Menelaus, Hector vs. Ajax and Achilles vs. Hector. There were some good dialogues like which transpired between King Prium and Achilles.

I wish someday some hollywood director is pursuaded to make a movie out of a even greater epic 'The Mahabharat'. It will be impossible to squueze it down to 2 hours 40 minutes like Troy so probably something like the Lord of the Rings (three parts taken together) would do justice.

There are similarities between the two epics(Troy and Mahabharata), I can imagine Brad Pitt taking the role of Arjun and Eric Bana of Hector. In Troy there are no single hero- was it Achilles but then he was arrogant and a tragic hero, was it Hector but he was in the losing side or was it Odeysseus but he didn't have too much role to play in Illiad (Based on which the movie Troy was made).

To sum up I was quite satisfied to sit through the full length of the movie, Indians are used to long movies and long epic tales ...I still remember myself glued to the sunday television when Mahabharata was televised.

A good start to summer movie season (coming up Shrek 2, Spiderman 2, Day after tomorrow)