'''Kamalabai'''


1992 46’ col Marathi/Hindi
d/p Reena Mohan c Ranjan Palit, K.U. Mohanan
Documentary about the Marathi theatre and
screen actress Kamalabai Gokhale who also
played the lead in Phalke’s Mohini Bhasmasur
(1914). Based on interviews with the
octogenarian in her Pune flat and with several
clips from Phalke films, Mohan captures some
revealing moments with complex cinematic
reverberations: e.g. Kamalabai informally reenacts
roles she played in the 20s and, at the
end of the film, she suddenly realises that the
camera has been filming her all that time. Made
over a three-year period, the film chronicles
changing seasons and times of day with a
finely tuned soundtrack and innovative
camerawork.

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