A middle-aged antique dealer and money lender recollects his marriage to a 17-year-old orphan girl.
Direction
Kaul fragments time like shattered porcelain.
Cinematography
Static frames that breathe; every shadow deliberate.
Director
Mani Kaul
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kaul was a key figure in India's 'Parallel Cinema' movement, rejecting narrative pleasure for phenomenological experience.
Shekhar Kapur directed 'Elizabeth' years later—the same man who once sat motionless in Kaul's frames for minutes at a time.
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