Vihir – The Well

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Sunday, October 9th 19:15

Pune-based Sameer and his cousin Nachiket fi nally meet up after corresponding through letters for a relative‘s wedding in the country. Their easy camaraderie is punctuated by swims in the local well . Nachiket suff ers from some kind of existential crisis, but no one, not even Sameer, seems to notice. The boys fall out after a squabble over Nachiket‘s hesitation to move to Pune for school and they separate on a down note. Deciding to make amends, Sameer heads back to the town to fi nd that in his absense Nachiket has drowned…

Indie – 2010 – DVD – 135 min.
genre: psychological drama
directed by: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
cast: Madan Deodhar, Alok Rajwade, Mohan Agashe, Jyoti Subhash
Marathi language + English subtitles

This film is part of the program curated by Karan Bali, fi lmmaker and co-founder of Upperstall.com