After ‘RRR’, ‘Baahubali’, Vijayendra Prasad Turns To Lachit Borphukan’s Saga – FilmyVoice
After being revived by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Seventeenth-century common Lachit Borphukan’s story is being dropped at life by ‘RRR’ screenwriter, movie director and Rajya Sabha MP Vijayendra Prasad in a novel titled ‘Brahmaputra: The Ahom Son Rises (E book 1)’.
The prolific screenwriter of blockbusters, who’s additionally S.S. Rajamouli’s father, has collaborated with naval officer-turned-espionage fiction author Kulpreet Yadav to place collectively the novel being launched by HarperCollins Publishers India on Could 30.
The story, which mixes motion and romance, takes off with Lachit falling in love with Princess Padmini, daughter of Swargadeo Jayadhwaj Singha, ruler of the Ahom kingdom. The king finds out in regards to the romance and throws Lachit out of the capital, Jorhat.
A couple of days later, the Ahom capital is attacked by Aurangzeb’s forces, forcing the king to signal a peace treaty, whereby he cedes half management of his kingdom to the Mughals. For Lachit and his greatest good friend, Prince Chakradhwaj, the phrases of the treaty are humiliating.
Inside days their troubles multiply when a prince from a kingdom loyal to the Ahoms misleads different minor rulers and assaults Jorhat. As Lachit and Prince Chakradhwaj defend the capital, this battle has the ability to vary the way forward for the Ahom kingdom ceaselessly.
Can Lachit, Prince Chakradhwaj and Princess Padmini restore the honour of the Ahoms by defeating the rebels and breaking free from the Mughal stranglehold? That’s the crux of the story from the multi-award-winning author of the 2 ‘Baahubali’ movies, beside ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ and ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’.
Prasad’s collaborator, Kulpreet Yadav, is a product of the Naval Officers’ Academy who has spent twenty years as an officer in uniform and efficiently commanded three ships in his profession.
Since his retirement from the Indian Coast Guard in 2014, he has authored books throughout a number of genres, akin to espionage, army historical past and true crime. He lives in Mumbai and his newest is ‘The Battle of Rezang La’ (Penguin, 2021).
