''Hanuman'' is a 1998 French-Indian film directed by Frédéric Fougea. The film stars Scottish actor

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and Indian actress

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in the lead roles. The film was dubbed in Danish as ''Hanuman og abernes tempel'' with

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, and

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providing the voices of Tom, Anja, and Ashok, respectively. The film was alternatively titled as ''The Monkey Who Knew Too Much''. It was the on-screen debut for

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as a child artist.

Cast

* Monkey as Hanou *

as Scotsman Tom *

as Anja * Nathalie Auffret as Alice, a French woman *

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as Ashok, a rich politician *

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as Tom's father * Baby

as Munna, Anja's younger sister * Khalid Tyabji as Deva, a monk * Sidney Kean as Roberto * Jim Adhi Limas as Louis * Govind Raoa as Anja's father * Veena Sajnani as the minister * Hans Kaushik as Young Sadhu * Paul Bandey as the auctioneer *

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as a local police officer ; Voice Cast * William Doherty as the narrator

Awards and nominations

Release

Carla Meyer of ''

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'' praised the performances of Cavanah and the monkeys and wrote that "By the last third, "''Hanuman''" has become a pretty predictable good-versus- evil story. But the picture's great beauty, and the obvious care that it took to make it, override the triteness". Dennis Harvey of ''

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'' similarly wrote that " Fougea’s deft orchestration of two trained and 50 wild monkeys — who make antic, appealing camera subjects — nicely suspends disbelief, while his brisk pacing makes the somewhat formulaic script go down easily". On the contrary, Jesper Vestergard of ''CinemaZone'' criticized the film and wrote that "The film's expression never manages to land a place where it can satisfy neither children nor adults, and the magical element of history with the monkey god never comes to its own".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0165807 1998 films Films about monkeys Films set in Asia English-language Indian films English-language French films 1990s English-language films