Video Sources
One Day Before the Rainy Season
Synopsis
A literary film based on a play in three acts, One Day Before the Rainy Season (Ashad Ka Ek Din) portrays the love of Mallika and Kalidasa, the renowned Sanskrit poet and dramatist. Vilom, a friend to both and interested in Mallika, is a passive onlooker for the first two acts. Kalidasa leaves his verdant mountain valley home for the splendour of far off Ujjain, where he wins fame. The action of the film is rooted in the village to which Kalidasa returns years later and finds Mallika married to Vilom and the mother of his child. Mallika sacrificed her love so that the poet could pursue his muse.
Original Title
अषाढ़ का एक दिन
Director
Mani Kaul
Rekha Sabnis
Mallika
Arun Khopkar
Kalidasa
Om Shivpuri
Vilom
Aruna Irani
Ambika
No Image
Anuradha Kapoor
No Image
Uma Sahaay
No Image
Hemant Bose
No Image
Surendra Dheer
No Image
Vishnu Mathur
Pinchoo Kapoor
