Based on Indian folklore, Duvidha (The Dilemma) shows what happens when you choose your business over your new bride. You're liable to get replaced by a shape-shifting tree ghost for the five years you're gone, and then where will you be when you come back? Keeping it from being too anthropological are two things. One is Mani Kaul's experimentalism, creating immediacy with extreme close-ups, reflection with still images, and a fairy tale quality with the bleached cinematography. The other is putting us in its three characters' heads with different voices, the net, modernizing effect being that the tale's theme can be understood to be the lack of choice and agency women have in the culture. Husbands, whether actual or ghostly impostors, must be accepted. Prospective husbands may well be taught a lesson about neglecting their wives, but for the wives, the teachable moment is less useful, and more depressing.
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Siskoid
Based on Indian folklore, Duvidha (The Dilemma) shows what happens when you choose your business over your new bride. You're liable to get replaced by a shape-shifting tree ghost for the five years you're gone, and then where will you be when you come back? Keeping it from being too anthropological are two things. One is Mani Kaul's experimentalism, creating immediacy with extreme close-ups, reflection with still images, and a fairy tale quality with the bleached cinematography. The other is putting us in its three characters' heads with different voices, the net, modernizing effect being that the tale's theme can be understood to be the lack of choice and agency women have in the culture. Husbands, whether actual or ghostly impostors, must be accepted. Prospective husbands may well be taught a lesson about neglecting their wives, but for the wives, the teachable moment is less useful, and more depressing.MMDan
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Torgo
Odd, very artsy fairytale-like film which at moments feels like an Indian La Jetée. While with some beautiful shots - gloriously transferred to HD - the pace is glacial, even at 82 minutes, and will put fans of usual Bollywood to sleep.