aka The Seventh Horse of the Sun
1992 130’ col Hindi
d Shyam Benegal pc NFDC s Shama Zaidi
from Dharamvir Bharati’s novel c Piyush Shah
m Vanraj Bhatia
lp Amrish Puri, Neena Gupta, K.K. Raina,
Pallavi Joshi, Raghuvir Yadav
In Allahabad in UP, every evening, the bachelor
Manek Mulla (Puri) tells stories to a group of
friends gathering at his house. Over two
evenings, he tells three stories: apparently
about his own boyhood, adolescence and
adulthood. Each centres on a relationship with
a woman and they rehearse the notions of
romance, love and separation. After the stories,
the friends discuss them. This bitter-sweet
comedy, shot by one of India’s most
outstanding cinematographers, about a man’s
smug but immature attitudes towards women
also raises questions about the distinctions
between memory, reality and fantasy.
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