Mani Kaul Movies

A stylized version of Vijay Tendulkar’s radical Marathi play chronicling the Peshwa regime in western India, a collective effort of direction...

A very clever parrot lives in a Hindu palace, surrounded by many beautiful girls, but the parrot escapes, and is trapped far from the palace. One...

Based on the text written by Vijaydan Detha and Kamal Kothari, the film is set in the arid desert of Rajasthan, a setting similar to Duvidha, where...

The precautions to be taken during and after an air-raid by the people, are shown in this film.

A middle-aged antique dealer and money lender recollects his marriage to a 17-year-old orphan girl.

A newly-married merchant’s son is sent away for business. A ghost, who laid eyes on the bride, falls madly in love with her and takes the form...

An impressionistic biographical look at Siddheshwari Devi (1908–1977), the classical Indian singer whose voice was appreciated by the maharajas...

This documentary is a three-part tribute to director Guru Dutt, who died in 1964 at the age of 39. The work traces Guru Dutt's personal story through...

A literary film based on a play in three acts, One Day Before the Rainy Season (Ashad Ka Ek Din) portrays the love of Mallika and Kalidasa, the...

In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.

The film depicts the life of a truck driver Sucha Singh and his wife Balo. Balo has to get Sucha Singh's food ready every day, walk a long distance...

This film suggests a network of hierarchical relations between people through sometimes subtle and at other times blunt illustrations.

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films...

Mani Kaul's diploma film shot at Ajanta Caves

Chitrakathi is about the folk artists of western India who narrate with the help of leather puppets. Mani takes us to the sleepy Konkan coastal...

Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in...

Samar wants to be successful in life but his parents force him to get married. His wife is shy and reserved and Samar does not like this. The other...

In this short, rather satirical film we meet various ill-assorted characters who are seeking their own individual ‘Gods’. The characters...

A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.

To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep – all ready for consumption. It is the process of...