1975 · drama · hindi
Nishant
Directed by Shyam Benegal2h 16m1975
A man whose wife is abducted seeks to have the culprits prosecuted for their crime, but no one will help him. Meanwhile, the wife—abused and berated by her abductors—cannot bring herself to face her husband.
Our read: Nishant (1975) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · hindi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / hindi, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intense
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