Maya Darpan(1973)

🎬107 min
📅1973-08-02
🎭Drama
6.4/10

Overview

In his debut feature film, Kumar Shahani employs highly innovative forms for depicting the conflict between oppressive feudal norms and a changing industrial landscape while making female sexuality and its complex mindscape the focus. The protagonist, Taran, the younger daughter of a Rajasthani zamindar revolts against the social code set by the class system by a sexual encounter with an engineer. This film was one of the earlier and successful examples experimentation in colour during the advent of New Indian cinema.

Production

Film Finance Corporation, National Film Development Corporation of India

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Cast

Aditi
as Taran
Anil Pandya
as Diwan Saab
Kanta Vyas
as Taran's Mother
Iqbalnath Kaul
as Engineer Saab