Oct 04: The renowned Indian film maker Shekhar Kapur's " Elizabeth: The Golden Age" – a sequel to his earlier one “ Elizabeth" directed by himself premiers in Los Angeles. It is believed that the sequel based on the later part of the life of Britain Queen Elizabeth is all set to recreate history with its star studding performances.
The 1998 film Elizabeth written by Michael Hirst was nominated for Oscar and assembled huge response from worldwide viewers and critics as one of the best directed film on a historic subject. Director Kapur had decided to make a sequel soon after he finished the first one as he felt it an incomplete one.
The first piece presented the early life and her successful reign in the back drop of religion and politics that influenced her life a lot. The seven-time academy award nominated ‘Elizabeth’ starring Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush was an excellent historical drama based on the 16th century Europe.
Both of the lead cast are here again to recreate the historical drama tied with betrayal and romance and hence more insight into the personal and political life of the warrior queen, Queen Elizabeth.
The ‘Golden Age’ will showcase the political drama with the religious conflict – conflict between Protestants and Catholics during her reign. Also the story compacts with the famous 16th century war against the Spanish empire to defend her empire and to restore Catholicism in Britain, which later wrote her name in golden letters in world history.
The film also lets us to experience the epic story with familial betrayal as Elizabeth’s cousin Mary Stuart conspires with Philip of Spain to acquire the throne. The film is all about the struggle and rise to power above all conspiracy & court politics and a startling vulnerability in personal life.
As far as films music is concerned, it is another proud Indian A.R. Rahman who is the only Indian so far to manage international projects so eloquently as the domestic ones. Apart from being one of the representatives of 16th century Britain, the music also has to balance the essence of flowered English culture with Shakespeare’s poetic sense.
The film is set to release on Oct 12 and before that it has been already premiered in various film festivals including the 2007 Toronto International Film Festivals. But it will be interesting to see whether the film continues to live up to the first part Elizabeth-I and with a spirit to characterise the life of a powerful monarch, a woman, who remained a lonely woman, known as “The Virgin Queen”.
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