One Day Before the Rainy Season (1971)
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.
Director: Mani Kaul
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Rekha Sabnis as Mallika |
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Arun Khopkar as Kalidasa |
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Om Shivpuri as Vilom |
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Aruna Irani as Ambika |
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Anuradha Kapoor as |
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Uma Sahaay as |
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Hemant Bose as |
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Surendra Dheer as |
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Vishnu Mathur as |
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Pinchoo Kapoor as |
| Sound | Jaidev | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Mohan Rakesh | Theatre Play |
| Camera | K.K. Mahajan | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Mani Kaul | Director |
| Writing | Mohan Rakesh | Writer |
| Sound | Mangesh Desai | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Narendra Singh | Sound Designer |
| Directing | Surendra Dheer | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Aftab Afraadi | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Dr. Sukhranjan Chakravarty | Music |
| Directing | Vishnu Mathur | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Deenu Shetty | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Raju Naik | Assistant Editor |
| Art | H. K. Verma | Assistant Director of Photography |
| Writing | Mani Kaul | Writer |
