Undecision

Date:: 15 Nov 2025, 16:00–17:40

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An ancient Indian legend is transformed into a dizzying modernist masterpiece. Russian premiere of the restored version as part of the Ghost Stories film programme.

Duvidha
1973, Mani Kaul

India
84 minutes, Hindi with Russian subtitles

Starring: Raisa Padamsee, Ravi Menon, Hardan, Manohar Lala

Lachhi gets married, and soon her husband Krishnalal has to leave for a long trip. The heroine does not yet know that her wedding is watched over by an ancient ghost, burning with desire. When the young wife is left alone, he takes on the appearance of Kishanlal and charms her, making no secret of his deception. Lachhi allows herself to succumb.

Shot from Undecision, 1973

The most radical formalist experiment of Indian cinema in terms of narrative, spatial, and temporal dissonance.

— Arun A.K., Mubi Notebook

The films of Mani Kaul, a master of Indian parallel cinema of the 1970s, balance on the edge of reality and fantasy, popular entertainment and avant-garde. In Undecision, almost everything is elusively surreal, and this phantom quality, among other things, showed how serious Indian cinema could be at a time when it was searching for its own language.

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