Director: Sanjiv Shah; Writer: Paresh Naik; Cinematographer: Navroze Contractor; Cast: Dilip Joshi, Renuka Shahane, Manoj Joshi, Mohan Gokhale, Arvind Vaidya
Duration: 01:58:33; Aspect Ratio: 1.324:1; Hue: 256.957; Saturation: 0.087; Lightness: 0.258; Volume: 0.209; Cuts per Minute: 8.275
Summary: Gujarati musical allegory about politics. The
middle-class scientist Hunshilal (Joshi), mainly
through the actions of his scientist-girlfriend
Parveen (Shahane), is pitted against a despotic
politician, King Bhadrabhoop II of Khojpuri
(Gokhale) whose subjects are bitten by a
mysterious breed of mosquitoes and become
restless. Hunshilal is employed by the Queen’s
Laboratory to eradicate the mosquitoes but he
defects, with Parveen, to the side of the bugs.
He is caught and brainwashed but Parveen
escapes the kingdom and sets out for the land
of the mosquitoes beyond the Black Hills. The
rulers are portrayed as indolent oppressors
who spend their time playing with toy guns
and toy trains. The film’s somewhat forced
effort to assimilate a postmodern aesthetic is
mainly evidenced in an unprecedentedly large
number of songs cut into an already
overcrowded soundtrack.
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