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Idiot (TV Miniseries)

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Original title

Ahamaq

Year

1991

Running time

223 min.

Country

India

Director

Mani Kaul

Screenwriter

Hemendra Bhatia, Rajeev Kumar, Anup Singh. Novel: Fiódor Dostoyevski

Cast

Music

Vikram Joglekar, D. Wood

Cinematography

Piyush Shah

Producer

Doordarshan

Genre

TV Series. Drama | Disease/illness. TV Miniseries

Movie Groups

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Adaptations

Synopsis

Mani Kaul's adaptation of Dostoevski's Idiot is his most profoundly affecting film and a "tour de force" (Rajadhyaksha) that co-ordinates actors, settings and situations to a multiplicity. It his most realized attempt at making formalist film by moving the camera,without looking through the viewfinder to make Gilles Deleuze's reading of cinema as an any-instant-whatever or equidistant instant to an any-space-whatever or any equispatial instant. This equispatial instant is created by destroying the dialectic between required and not-required, sacral and profane. Mani Kaul, analyzing his own films would state that, whereas his earlier works engaged a rarefaction of information, Idiot was the first to encounter a saturation of events.

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Idiot (TV Miniseries)

1991

Mani Kaul