Maya Darpan

Maya Darpan English The Illusory Mirror is an Indian Hindi film directed by Kumar Shahani. It is a significant work of the Indian Parallel Cinema movement which started during the 1970s with filmmakers Mani Kaul and Shyam Benegal. The film was forgotten soon after its release, but was rediscovered and is today considered a landmark work of Indian cinema. The film stars Aditi and Anil Pandya.

Taran Aditi is the daughter of a wealthy landlord Anil Pandya and lives with her father and her widowed aunt Kanta Vyas in their ancestral mansion which goes on to represent the whole of upper class in the film. The town is witnessing protests by newly formed labour unions which are partly being politically educated by the local railroad engineer Iqbalnath Kaul, who seems to have an unspoken romantic relationship with Taran. Tarans unseen brother, who had, to the chagrin of their father, renounced his class privileges and gone off to an Assamese tea estate, asks Taran to join him. Stuck in a stifling patriarchal order, with pressure to get married to an upper class groom mounting, Taran decides to talk to her father about her plans.After its original release in 1972, Maya Darpan won the Filmfare Award for Critics Choice Best Film, but was quickly forgotten soon after. ........

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