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Mani Kaul (25 December 1944 – 6 July 2011) was an Indian director of Hindi films and a figure in Indian parallel cinema. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Starting his career with Uski Roti (1969), which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win four of them in all. He won the National Film Award for Best Direction in 1974 for Duvidha and later the National Film Award for his documentary film Siddheshwari in 1989.
Most Popular Mani Kaul Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
01 January 1976
A stylized version of Vijay Tendulkar’s radical Marathi play chronicling the Peshwa regime in western India, a collective effort of direction and cinematography made by an independent group of young filmmakers.
27 May 1965
Ramesh is a poorly paid employee in the city Power House. His only child has high temperature, but he mistakes it for common fever.
02 January 1970
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 through the fields and wait for him on the highway as he drives past the village.
30 September 1999
This film suggests a network of hierarchical relations between people through sometimes subtle and at other times blunt illustrations.
01 January 1977
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 village and introduces us to the family that has preserved this unique art for several centuries.
01 January 1981
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 two rival clans face off one another in the desert.
01 January 2005
A Monkey’s Raincoat is a personal documentary about young artists working at the ‘Rijksakademie’; an institute which offers residency to sixty talented artists from all over the world.
01 January 2002
Mani Kaul's last film documents his days in Holland and his engagement in India with that form of cinema which for him was the Big Other i.
17 February 1980
Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in voice-overs (poetry, essays, and stories), while the characters within the texts walk through real or imaginary landscapes.
06 March 1991
A middle-aged antique dealer and money lender recollects his marriage to a 17-year-old orphan girl.
14 June 1996
Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard.
01 January 1969
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.
25 December 1967
The film shows the role of school teachers and the importance thereof.
28 September 1994
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.
10 October 1966
Mani Kaul's diploma film shot at Ajanta Caves
01 January 1989
A 'filmscape' on the Kashmir valley.
01 January 1967
Sanjay and Ritu meet after two months. While Sanjay is eager to meet her, he falls short of words when they actually meet.
30 June 1973
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 of the husband and begins living with her.
08 August 1971
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 renowned Sanskrit poet and dramatist.
01 January 1970
The precautions to be taken during and after an air-raid by the people, are shown in this film.
27 March 1985
In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.
04 October 1983
A documentary story told through images, poetry and the Dhrupad, a vocal genre in Hindustani classical music, said to be the oldest still in use in that musical tradition.
01 January 1980
To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep – all ready for consumption.
15 February 1990
An impressionistic biographical look at Siddheshwari Devi (1908–1977), the classical Indian singer whose voice was appreciated by the maharajas and public alike.
11 June 1989
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 many interviews with his family members and colleagues and observes his work through the use of extensive film excerpts.
01 February 1975
Unpaid... overworked... a woman at home.... mother ! How muchdoes her labour cost ? Raising such a questions, this film fathomshistory - of matriarchy and patriarchy, of morality, of oppressiveanti-woman modes.
01 January 1968
A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.
01 January 1974
Documentary short about the nomadic puppeteers of Rajasthan.
27 August 1965
In this short, rather satirical film we meet various ill-assorted characters who are seeking their own individual ‘Gods’.
