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Won National Film Award: Best Art Direction - Won Filmfare Awards:  Best Lyricist; Best Playback Singer Female

Utsav

1984, regia di Girish Karnad

Scheda: Nazione: India - Produzione: Film-Valas - Distribuzione: Eros Entertainment - Soggetto: dal testo teatrale Mrichhakatika (Il carretto d’argilla), attribuito a Shudraka - Sceneggiatura: Krishna Basrur, Girish Karnad - Dialoghi: Sharad Joshi - Fotografia: Ashok Mehta - Montaggio: Bhanudas Divkar - Art Direction: Jayoo Patwardhan, Nachiket - Musiche: Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma - Effetti speciali: B.R. Special Effects - Formato: Color, linguaggio Hindi - Durata: 145'.

Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Amjad Khan, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kunal Kapoor, Anuradha Patel, Anupam Kher, Harish Patel, Gopi Desai, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, Shekhar Suman, Rajesh Puri, Deepak Kejriwal, Sanjana Kapoor, Neelu Arora, Yunus Parvez, Satish Kaushik, Manjushree, Prithviraj Kapoor.

Trama e commenti: venus.unive.it - worldlingo.com - TreccaniCinema: «...Nel 1984 Karnad realizza in hindi e in inglese Utsav (Festa), prodotto e interpretato da Shashi Kapoor, affiancato nella recitazione da Shankar Nag a da Rekha. Il soggetto di Utsav deriva da un noto testo del teatro sanscrito del II-IV secolo, Mrichhakatika (Il carretto d’argilla), attribuito a Shudraka. Il film narra dell’amore di un brahmano impoverito, Charudutta, per la celebre e colta cortigiana Vasantsena. Utsav fu giudicato un film molto scabroso, vi si vede ad esempio anche il saggio brahmano Vatsyayana Mallanga, l’autore del Kama-sutra, mentre visita i vari kotha della cittŕ per potersi adeguatamente documentare, ed ebbe non pochi problemi con la censura. ...».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - allmovie.com - en.wikipedia.org - worldscinema.com - parallelcinema.blogspot.com - answers.com - harsamay.com - bollywhat-forum.com - passionforcinema.com - doctorflix.com - video247.tv - uiowa.edu: «Playwright, actor, director, and theatre scholar Girish Karnad conceived this film as a popularly-accessible tribute to the glories of Sanskrit drama, turning one of the most beloved of classical plays, the ca. 5th century “Little Clay Cart” (ascribed to Shudraka) into a contemporary spectacle with A-list stars and music by major filmi composers. Lavish sets and costumes, jewelry and hairstyles, all inspired by classical paintings and sculptures, evoke the glories of the Gupta age, while saucy dialog in contemporary (if properly Sanskritized) Hindi recreates the playwright’s satirical vision of the demimondaine world of the city of Ujjayini. By reminding viewers that, for ancient Indians, “pleasure” and “profit” (kama and artha) were right up there with “virtue” (dharma) among the principal Aims of Life, the film can serve as a refreshing antidote to the over-emphasized philosophical and mystical preoccupations of the much-studied texts of the classical period (e.g., Bhagavad-gita). Its Rabelaisian cast of characters — the voluptuous and talented courtesan, witty cat burglar, pompous monk, wild-eyed revolutionary — mirror those found in the worldly-wise story anthologies of the classical period (such as those translated in J. A. B. van Buitenen’s Tales of Ancient India), and thus bring to life their urbane world of fleshly delights. ...».

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