Ashoka the Hero is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language animated film written and directed by Gaurav Jain.[2] The film was promoted as Indian's first animated superhero film.[3][4]
This film was released in theatres on 7 January 2011,[6] but it got 25 prints only.[7]
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 don’t expect to leave the theatre overwhelmed".[8]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!"[9]
Box office
The film grossed an estimated ₹3 lakh (US$3,500) at the box office, against a budget of ₹1.5 crore (US$180,000) and declared as "disaster" by boxofficeindia.[7] It earned ₹50,000 on first day, ₹1,50,000 on first weekend and a sum of ₹2,10,000 on its first week.[7]
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