Idiot (TV Miniseries)
1991 · Movie · 223 min. · India
Mani Kaul's adaptation of Dostoevski's Idiot is his most profoundly affecting film and a "tour de force" (Rajadhyaksha) that co-ordinates actors, settings and situations to a multiplicity. It his most realized attempt at making formalist film by moving the camera,without looking through the viewfinder to make Gilles Deleuze's reading of cinema as an any-instant-whatever or equidistant instant to an any-space-whatever or any equispatial instant. This equispatial instant is created by destroying the dialectic between required and not-required, sacral and profane. Mani Kaul, analyzing his own films would state that, whereas his earlier works engaged a rarefaction of information, Idiot was the first to encounter a saturation of events.
Direction Mani Kaul
Cast Ayub Khan-Din · Shahrukh Khan · Navjot Hansra · Vasudeo Bhatt · Babulal Bora · Meenakshi Goswami · Deepak Mahan · Amrit Nath · Nirmal Pandey · Thulal Parveen · Mita Vasisht · Neeraj Vora
Soundtrack Vikram Joglekar · D. Wood
Screenplay Hemendra Bhatia · Rajeev Kumar · Anup Singh · Fiódor Dostoyevski
Cinematography Piyush Shah
Original title Ahamaq
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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