Director Mrityunjay Devvrat happens to have found inspiration for Children of War &mdash; which released last Friday &mdash; in the book, The Agony and the Ecstasy. He has referred to the book while making his historical drama that revolves around Pakistani military&rsquo;s atrocities on Bangladeshi women and children.
<img title="Indraneil Sengupta in Mrityunjay Devvrat&rsquo;s 'Children of War'" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/jul/22-indraneil.jpg" alt="Indraneil Sengupta in Mrityunjay Devvrat&rsquo;s 'Children of War'" /> Indraneil Sengupta in Mrityunjay Devvrat&rsquo;s 'Children of War'
Interestingly enough, The Agony and the Ecstasy is a biographical novel on Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Written by American author Irving Stone, the primary source of the novel is Michelangelo&rsquo;s correspondence &mdash; all 495 letters &mdash; which Stone had translated from the Italian. A copy of the book was gifted to Devvrat by his mother and that&rsquo;s where the director seems to have found inspiration for his film.
&ldquo;Inspired by Michelangelo&rsquo;s disposition towards art &mdash; showing reality the way it is &mdash; Children Of War shows how and why absolute power corrupts absolutely. Revisiting the Bangladesh&rsquo;s war of liberation in 1971, it recreates with nerve-wracking vividness, the horrors of those times when suddenly a whole civilization was threatened with extinction,&rdquo; says Devvrat. He adds, &ldquo;At heart, this is a conventional lovely story of a couple &mdash; played by Indraneil Sengupta and Raima Sen &mdash; who are separated by sudden war.&rdquo;
Apart from these names, the film also stars actors Pavan Malhotra, the late Farooque Shaikh, Tillotama Shome, Riddhi Sen and Victor Bannerjee.

Mrityunjay Devvrat&rsquo;s 'Children of War' apparently draws influence from the letters of this celebrated Renaissance artist

'Children of War' inspired by Michelangelo

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