Veer Kunal 1945

Veer Kunal is a 1945 Indian Bollywood historical film released on 1945. The film is directed by Kishore Sahu.
Prince Kunals own mother Asandhimitra, has been dead many years. The late queen was exceedingly beloved by the people, and her memory is still cherished by the subjects throughout the vast Mayuran Empire with love and reverence. Kunals step-mother, Kurvaki, loves Kunal as a real mother. The Emperor bears his bereavement with fortitude and patience worthy of the great monarch that Ashoka is. But now, suddenly a strange infatuation has siezed him, and he is always dreaming of Tishyarakshita, the beautiful daughter of an obscure cheiftin, with whom he has fallen in love at first sight. . Tishyas intriguin maid, Menaka, is already inside the palace. And the Emperor is going to make Tishya his yet another queen. . The old, loyal Prime Minister Somdev is scandalised. He feels effronted by the impending entry of this undesirable woman into the royal palace. He is determined to foil the old emperors designs. . But the inevitable does happen. Tishya comes in as a queen and soon acquries supermacy in state affairs. Somdev, with all his age and expereicne of state craft, is suppreseded by the superior diplomacy of this beautiful, cunning upstart. . Tishya is now the focus of all homage and attention. Somdevs loyality to the throne is being put to the test. He accepts the challenge at Tishyas hands and licks the dust every time. Humiliated but not humbled, the proud and honest Somdev bides his time and does not despair. . Soon happens something which suddenly diverts all her attention to another subject. Tishya sees her step-son, Kunal and falls in love with him, again, at first sight. Kunal, the brave, handsome Prince with a gentle loving wife and a smart little son, finds himself the unhappy object of Tishyas amorous attentions. Kunal revolts with all the abhorrence agains the unnatural passion of a woman for her son. . All the drama of the story centres round the struggle of the prince to shake himself off from the wicked and lustful designs of Tishyarakshita, the queen of the vast Mauryan Empire and the wife of a great Emperor, who, by dint of her unbounded influence with the old monarch and her own resources of mind, crushes all opposition for a time and has her own unthwarted way. . But wickedness has a short reign. It is goodness alone that succeeds in the long run; and the forces of truth and right arrayed against the evil, soon achieve ascendancy. . Tishya, finding her love for Kunal repulsed, fumes and growls like the wounded tigress, and is determined to punish the proud prince. She blosters up a false charge of murder against him and throws him into the dungeon. Not satisfied with heaping this indignity upon the innocent prince, she has his eyes blinded, out of sheer flendish pique . Ashoka, whose sense of justice duty and love of his good, dutiful and love of his good, dutiful son has been clouded by his infatuation of this beautiful viper, the King Dasharath of Ayodhya, falls ill. . Kurvakis motherly regard for Kunal is unbounded. She, by means of a clever plot, lets Kunal escape from the dungeon. Kunal, a free man now, rallies round him the whole Patliputra, who march to the gate of the palace and demand justice for the victim of tyranny. . The Emperor, who is convalescing and is still weak, hears the loud, disturbing noise close to his apartment and insists on knowing who the rebels are. On being told that it is his own subjects who are demanding justice for the royal prisoner, the Emperors old sense of fair play revives; and he, in spite of Tishyas remonstrances, convenes a public Durbar and goes through the whole trail. . The emperor who is striken with great remorse at the blinding of his beloved son, Kunal, and seized with contrition at his own infatuation for the physical charms of a vile woman, ragains the wonted strength of mind, and passes on Tishya the heaviest sentence of penalty santcioned by the code of Chanakya- that she shall be burnt alive. The time for the nemesis has arrived. All the crowd of people, who have borne the tyranny of the beautiful devil for so many days, now witness a fitting doom befalling her. All the victims are avenged. . But Prince Kunal who has lost his precious eyes, than which there is upon earth no precious gift of God, what about him? [Source: Booklet] Check out this page for more updates on Veer Kunal.