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Water way

  • 30/08/1995

With the delayed monsoons and the threat of drought looming large over India, K 81kram Singh's first independent feature film, Tarpan, was premiered in July at the most appropriate time. Singh uses tarpan - the practice of offering water to the dead ancestors - as a metaphor to relate how the forces of compassion have to struggle against orthodoxy and superstition.

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