Part of Politics as Spectacle: The Films of Mani Ratnam
Friday, July 31, 2015, 7:00 p.m.

Followed by a discussion with Mani Ratnam and Richard Peña

Dir. Mani Ratnam. 1992, 175mins. 35mm. In Tamil with English subtitles. With Arvind Swamy, Madhoo. A marriage is being arranged for computer engineer Rishi and a beautiful young woman, but when he meets her she begs him to marry her sister instead. So Roja becomes Rishi’s wife, a development about which she is not happy. But when she discovers that Rishi’ is truly a good man, she decides to devote herself to him anyway. During a trip to Kashmir, Rishi is kidnapped by separatists, hoping to use him for a prisoner exchange; all alone, Roja moves heaven and earth to set him free, fighting against the indifference of the police, the Army, and government officials.

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