Director: Ketan Mehta; Writer: Gustave Flaubert, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Ketan Mehta, Hriday Lani, Gulan Kriplani; Producer: Gabriel Auer, David Aukin, Vikram Mehrohtra, Ketan Mehta, Paul Saadoun; Cinematographer: Anup Jotwani; Editor: Renu Saluja; Cast: Deepa Sahi, Farooq Shaikh, Shah Rukh Khan, Raj Babbar, Shreeram Lagoo, Sudha Shivpuri, Paresh Rawal, Raghuvir Yadav, Om Puri, Satyadev Dubey
Duration: 02:10:11; Aspect Ratio: 1.300:1; Hue: 330.755; Saturation: 0.067; Lightness: 0.302; Volume: 0.188; Cuts per Minute: 26.308; Words per Minute: 53.062
Summary: Maya (Sahi), the beautiful but extravagant wife
of a country doctor (Sheikh), craves a
glamorous life and has a series of love affairs
(Khan, Babbar) while becoming indebted to
Lalaji (Rawal). The film ends tragically when
her house is auctioned and she appears to be
engulfed by her fantasy life. The story is
narrated in flashback as a reconstruction of the
life of Maya (also meaning ‘illusion’). An Indo-
European co-production, the film is formally
and thematically ambitious, adapting Flaubert
while revisiting a range of Indian film and
television genres which are shown to shape
Maya’s fantasies.
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