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beauty and wit, Shanta holds court among a circle of suitors, including a Muslim, a Sikh and a Hindu.
As independence nears, the tensions exacerbate and the contest for Shanta’s attention sharpens toward ultimate violence. Taking the form of a symbolic memoir; Shanta, with her beauty, her possibility, her passion, her charisma, is India herself. This gorgeous film is driven home by brilliant performances, especially young Sethna’s, as the witness upon whom all this is imprinted so tragically. It looks back on that time and place not so much with anger and hatred but
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