The story centers around a small town entrepreneur named Maniram who makes a major profit by cheating people and selling them tainted food. His business is run by his daughter-in-law Tejo, who is married to Maniram's mentally challenged younger son. When Maniram's elder son comes back into town to get married, things start to go awry.
Direction
Shahani's painterly frames elevate soap to mythology.
Acting
Mita Vashisht carries the film's moral weight silently.
Cinematography
Each shot looks like a dusty Vermeer.
Director
Kumar Shahani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kumar Shahani was a key figure in India's Parallel Cinema movement, rejecting Bollywood melodrama for Brechtian distance.
The 'tainted food' metaphor extends to the entire social order—Shahani implicates the audience as consumers of this corruption.
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