Chhaava | Theatres List

By most historical accounts, Sambhaji, son of the legendary Maratha ruler Chhathrapati Sivaji, was a brat child. As a youngster, Samba was said to have been such a sexual deviant that his father had him imprisoned. Laxman Utekar's Chhaava, adapted from Shivaji Sawant's book, however, doesn't even have a whiff of this bacchanalian version of Sambha (Vicky Kaushal). For one thing, the film is set in the period after Sambha's ascent to the throne after the death of his father, tracking his stand-off with an aging but still vicious Aurangzeb (Akshaye Khanna) for control of the Deccan. Far from bei....