Divine Lovers
| Directed by | Babbar Subhash |
|---|---|
| Starring |
Hemant Birje Maxwell Caulfield Shannon McLeod |
| Music by | Bappi Lahiri |
Release dates | 1997 |
Running time | 135 min. |
| Language | English |
Divine Lovers is a 1997 Bollywood film directed by B. Subhash. The film cast include Maxwell Caulfield, Hemant Birje, Shannon McLeod.
Synopsis
The story is about lovers from previous lives meeting in India. The story start with a young village girl being captured by some henchmen belonging to a local sculptor. She is then forced to undress and pose nude with a guy for some time to allow the sculptor to sculpt their figures on the rocks. The couple are required to present more poses and in the process fall in love. Once when the sculptor is out, they consumate their relationship. However, they are caught by the sculptor, who hits the man on the head with a hammer. A fire occurs at the place and kills the man, while the sculptor takes the girl away.
In a modern time, the 1990s, in India, a local prince gets married to a local girl (later revealed to be a reincarnation of the girl whose image was sculpted). Meanwhile, an archaeologist in the US (later revealed to be the man killed by the sculptor) has frequent nightmares about a sculptor killing him. He visits India on a trip to a recently discovered archaeological site. While there he bonds with the new princess, without knowing that she was his lover some centuries ago. The prince is a womaniser and has multiple affairs. He also mistreats the princess.
The princess and the archaeologist fall in love. Once, while visiting the archaeological site the two realise that this is the same site where they consummated their love in their past lives many years ago. They once again consummate their new found love for each other. During this act, the price comes to the site. The prince is shown to be somewhat of a reincarnation of the sculptor. He hits the archaeologist. The archaeologist and the princess overpower him and he is killed, allowing the lovers to reunite. However, a minor earthquake results in the entrance to the caves being closed and the lovers trapped inside. As they accept their fate, the princess says "It is better to spend a few moments of love, than a lifetime without it," implying that they are content with dying together, trapped in the cave as they have each other.
Cast
- Maxwell Caulfield as Jeff Thompson
- Shannon McLeod as Reeta
- Marc Zuber as Prince Kabir
- Kim Sill as Gisela (as Kimberly Dawson)
- Richard Lynch as Gregory
- Hemant Birje as Chandra
- Tom Alter as Dr. Taubman
- Girja Shankar as Dr. Pran
- Anil Nagrath as Heinz
- Viju Khote as Mukerjee