Duvidha
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Duvidha |
| Original title | Duvidha |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Hindi |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mani Kaul |
| script | Mani Kaul |
| production | Mani Kaul |
| camera | Navroz Contractor |
| cut | Ravi Patnaik |
| occupation | |
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Duvidha is an Indian film director Mani Kaul from the year 1973 .
background
It is considered the director's masterpiece and is based on a story by the author Vijayadan Detha , who tells of a popular story from Rajasthan. Shot in the author's home village in Jodphur, the film uses a mixture of still images and moving sequences and thus creates the impression of a magical reality; due to its idiosyncratic aesthetic, it has been associated with the works of Ritwik Ghatak , Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker . The critic Devdutt Trivedi called the film a "work of radical originality". In 2005, Beauty and the Spirit (Paheli), a Bollywood-style remake of the film, hit theaters.
action
The son of a merchant, Krishanlal (Ravi Menon), marries a beautiful young woman, Lachhi (Raisa Padamsee), but goes away for five years to earn money. A spirit (referred to as bhoot , a word that denotes both spirit and past) falls in love with the young woman, transforms into the likeness of the husband, and spends the years with her, in mutual, honest consent, until the husband hears that his wife is pregnant. He returns to his home village and demands that the situation be clarified. The spirit is exposed, captured, and thrown into a well; a time of submission now begins for the wife.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Duvidha in the Internet Movie Database (English)