Mane (film)

Mane
Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
Produced by Girish Kasaravalli
Screenplay by Girish Kasaravalli
Story by T. G. Raghava
Starring Naseeruddin Shah
Deepti Naval
Rohini Hattangadi
Music by L. Vaidyanathan
Cinematography S. Ramachandra
Edited by M. N. Swamy
Distributed by Apoorva Chithra
Release dates
  • 1990
Running time
117 minutes
Country India
Language Kannada

Mane (Kannada: ಮನೆ, English: House) is a 1990 Indian Kannada language film directed by Girish Kasaravalli starring Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval and Rohini Hattangadi in lead roles.

Plot

Mane is a Kafkaesque tale about a young couple (Naseeruddin Shah and Deepti Naval) that moves to the city from a village with the hope of finding privacy and freedom, which are unavailable in the joint family system. For all its narrative excursions, in a sense, Mane is merely about the breakup of a marriage in which the Rossellinian couple, unable to confront each other directly amidst the loneliness of the city, externalizes their troubles – his powerlessness, her desire for freedom and their childlessness – and shifts blame on situations beyond their control in order to act victims. Kasaravalli works wonder with film and sound here, using them to denote the impending break down. (One stunning shot uses the neon lights of the neighbourhood to literally break apart the frame). A critique on urban spaces that suffocate more than they promise privacy, Mane unfolds like a sociological update on Rear Window (1954), in which personal anxieties and fears are displaced onto the surroundings and, specifically, onto a lower social class. In that sense, Mane connects all the way to the director’s latest work in the manner in which it raises questions about the visibility of the class structure and the seeming imperceptibility of the consequences of acts of one class on the other. Mane is full of such encroachments of freedom by other competing notions of freedom – between classes, between houses and between spouses.[1]

Cast

Awards and recognition

References

  1. "The Films Of Girish Kasaravalli". theseventhart.info.

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