Mani Kaul Movies

A documentary story told through images, poetry and the Dhrupad, a vocal genre in Hindustani classical music, said to be the oldest still in use in...

To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep – all ready for consumption. It is the process of...

A literary film based on a play in three acts, One Day Before the Rainy Season (Ashad Ka Ek Din) portrays the love of Mallika and Kalidasa, the...

Ramesh is a poorly paid employee in the city Power House. His only child has high temperature, but he mistakes it for common fever. At the Power...

Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in...

A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.

The film shows the role of school teachers and the importance thereof.

In this short, rather satirical film we meet various ill-assorted characters who are seeking their own individual ‘Gods’. The characters...

Documentary short about the nomadic puppeteers of Rajasthan.

Mani Kaul's last film documents his days in Holland and his engagement in India with that form of cinema which for him was the Big Other i.e....

A Monkey’s Raincoat is a personal documentary about young artists working at the ‘Rijksakademie’; an institute which offers...