Asoka

The film depicts the rise of Emperor Asoka, his battles for the throne, his tragic love story, and his transformation into a peaceful Buddhist leader. Asoka is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language Documentary Action film starring Shah Rukh Khan, Ajith Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Danny Denzongpa, Mónica Aragón and Kareena Kapoor Khan. Asoka was Produced by Shah Rukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Sanjiv Chawla and Juhi Chawla. Asoka is written by Saket Chaudhary and Santosh Sivan and it is directed by Daniel Valverde and Santosh Sivan. Dreamz Unlimited acquired the distribution rights for the film. Asoka was released on 26th October 2001 and takes a screen time of 176-171 minutes ,145 minutes. Asoka was made on a budget of ₹13 crore. The screenplay for the movie was written by Santosh Sivan , Saket Chaudhary and Abbas Tyrewala. Cinematography was done by Santosh Sivan and editing by A. Sreekar Prasad. The music was composed by National Award winner Anu Malik along with Sandeep Chowta.