1977 · drama · malayalam
Kanchana Sita
Directed by Govindan Aravindan1h 16m1977
The film interprets a story from the Uttara Kanda of the epic poem Ramayana, where Rama sends his wife, Sita, to the jungle to satisfy his subjects. Sita is never actually seen in the film, but her virtual presence is compellingly evoked in the moods of the forest and the elements. The film retells the epic from a womens' liberationist perspective, and is about the tragedy of power and the sacrifices that adherence to dharma demands, including abandoning a chaste wife.
Our read: Kanchana Sita (1977) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · malayalam entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / malayalam, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- inventive
- signature
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