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Jul 16, 2012, 8:40:56 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Utsav'''
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+aka The Festival
+1984 145’ col Hindi
+d/co-sc Girish Karnad p Shashi Kapoor
+co-p Dharampriya Das pc Film Valas
+st Sudraka’s play Mrichchakatikam aka The
+Little Cart and Bhasa’s play Charudatta
+co-sc Krishna Basrur dial Sharad Joshi lyr
+Vasant Dev c Ashok Mehta m Laxmikant-
+Pyarelal
+lp Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Anuradha, Shankar
+Nag, Shekhar Suman, Amjad Khan, Kunal
+Kapoor, Annu Kapoor, Neena Gupta,
+Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Anupam Kher
+
+
+An exuberant but unsuccessful picaresque film
+set in the 4th C., when Sudraka is supposed to
+have written one of the most famous plays in
+Indian history, a love story between the
+Brahmin merchant Charudatta (Suman) and the
+beautful courtesan Vasantsena (Rekha). Karnad
+also introduced Vatsyayana (Amjad Khan) as a
+voyeuristic lecher peeking into various brothel
+chambers to write his famous Kama Sutra.
+Vasantsena, a beautiful prostitute of Ujjain, runs
+away from the villain Samasthanaka
+(S. Kapoor), the libidinous brother-in-law of
+the king, and hides in the house of Charudatta,
+a music-lover, with whom she falls in love. She
+loses her golden necklace in Charudatta’s
+house and when it is stolen, Charudatta’s affair
+with the prostitute is exposed. Samasthanaka,
+who believes he killed Vasantsena when he
+tried to rape her, accuses Charudatta of the
+deed. When Charudatta is sentenced to hang
+for Vasantsena’s murder, she turns up, alive and
+well, to try to save her lover’s life. Just then, a
+horeseman arrives to declare that a new king
+has been crowned and has pardoned all
+prisoners. Charudatta is reunited with his wife
+while the populace turns on the villainous
+Samasthanaka. He drags himself to
+Vasantsena’s house who, this time, accepts
+him. Karnad uses the conventions of the Hindi
+movie to explore the rasas of Shringar (the
+erotic) and Hasya (the comic), on which India’s
+classical aesthetic theory of performance is
+based, and intended the film as a celebration of
+life and love. The location scenes, filmed in
+Karnataka and Bharatpur because of the
+traditional architectural styles available there,
+were completed by studio scenes shot in
+Bombay. Apparently a more explicitly erotic
+version of the film was created for the Western
+market. This expensive film was producer
+Shashi Kapoor’s last effort at an art-house
+production.
+
+[[Film]]