The Cage
2003, feature film
DIRECTED BY: Dwivedi, Prakash
CAST:
Urmila Matondkar (Puro / Hamida),
Manoj Bajpai (Rashid),
Sanjay Suri (Ramchand),
Sandali Sinha (Lajjo),
Priyanshu Chatterjee (Trilok)
SCRIPT:
Chandra Prakash Dwivedi (prema romanu Amrite Pritam)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Santosh Thundiiayil
Synopsis:
Puro is a happy young woman of Hindu origin promised to marry Ramchand, young man from a family similar to hers. Suddenly, her life changes when she gets kidnapped by an unknown man who turns out to be Rashid, a Muslim whose grandmother was kidnapped in the same way by Puro’s ancestor. Now Rashid is returning his family’s honor but ends up falling in love with Puro.
35 mm, color, 188 min