04 November 2025, 06:30 pm
Mani Kaul and that thing called the actor
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building
(96 minutes; English and Hindi; subtitles in English)
Directed by Mita Vashisht
The film takes a journey with a young actress and a young Dhrupad musician, into the landscape of an iconic film director's ideas of what acting in cinema is, or should be....
A profound insight into the deep engagement that film maker Mani Kaul had with the Natyashastra (the 2500-year-old treatise of the performing arts), and his practise of it, in crafting the actors' performance, in his cinema.