Movie: Maya Darpan

Top 4 Billed Cast

Aditi
Aditi

Taran

Anil Pandya
Anil Pandya

Diwan Saab

Kanta Vyas
Kanta Vyas

Taran's Mother

Iqbalnath Kaul
Iqbalnath Kaul

Engineer Saab

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    In his debut feature film, Kumar Shahani employs highly innovative forms for depicting the conflict between oppressive feudal norms and a changing industrial landscape while making female sexuality and its complex mindscape the focus. The protagonist, Taran, the younger daughter of a Rajasthani zamindar revolts against the social code set by the class system by a sexual encounter with an engineer. This film was one of the earlier and successful examples experimentation in colour during the advent of New Indian cinema.

  • Release Date

    1973-08-02

  • Average

    6.4

  • Rating:

    3.2 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    हिन्दी
  • Keywords

Recommendations Movies

Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon
54%

Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon(hi)

2003-10-07

The story of a girl in a small North Indian town who is an obsessive fan of top Hindi movie star Madhuri Dixit, and dreams of moving to Mumbai to become a film heroine herself.

Oh Meri Mehboba
100%

Oh Meri Mehboba(en)

2021-02-02

Big Boss, a passionate and eccentric actor, decides to bring his dream project to life by creating a Bollywood music video for Oh Meri Mehboba. He selects the charismatic and strong actor Manju, the stunning model Laila, and a group of talented friends to make the video unforgettable. The story centers around Manju and Laila. They start as casual acquaintances, their bond growing naturally into a close friendship. As they spend more time together, their connection blossoms into a deep and sincere love. However, their happiness catches the attention of Ranbir, who secretly harbors feelings for Laila and becomes jealous of their relationship. During a grand party, where everyone is gathered to celebrate, a drunken Ranbir approaches Laila, causing a scene.

Fake
40%

Fake(nl)

2016-05-08

An intelligent woman keeps falling for the wrong guy. With her latest lover David and a kilo of cocaine in her purse she barely escaped an arrest. Back in Holland she starts a B&B. Her first guest is the attractive Aziz, who wants to steal an old Moroccan mosaic at the International Art Fair.

Threshold
56%

Threshold(pt)

2020-11-12

An autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a firstperson narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.

Mon amour, mon ami
100%

Mon amour, mon ami(en)

2017-08-31

Daniela and Fouad live in Gubbio, and they both come from the sea: she is from Bari, he is from Casablanca. Their bodies have suffered hardships and alcoholism. They met by chance and a deep and healing friendship was born, which led them to live together. Now that Fouad needs a permit to stay, marriage seems to be the easiest solution. Daniela agrees to it, but as the wedding approaches, the ambiguity of Fouad’s feelings begins to worry her. Can you fake- marry someone who really loves you?

Nacht der Wölfe
50%

Nacht der Wölfe(de)

1982-02-24

The story of two rival gangs in Munich, one composed of German teens and the other of Turkish ones. The German version of "West Side Story".

You
60%

You(en)

1968-11-06

Through new camera techniques never before attempted we are able to put your audience on the edge of their seats, gasping for breath through FEEL-A-VISION. Your audience will boast that in one night they were able to whip a young girl to her masochistic climax - feel the warmth of a young female hitchhiker's gratitude for giving her a ride - answer a voyeur's plea to endure his young wife's sensuous desires - be sucked into a back alley profession they only dreamed existed - be pulled into a religion that requires a witness to an act of awareness by two young female believers and finally to participate with them in the most bizarre rite of depravity - take pictures of a would be starlet in a celebrated model studio and for a few dollars more get exactly what they want - get anything they wanted from a young Mexican girl in trouble with the police in return for helping her escape.

F.O.T.O.G.R.A.F.
65%

F.O.T.O.G.R.A.F.(ru)

2018-03-11

A short film based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fictional universe, combining the “Picnic to the curb” of the Strugatsky brothers, “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky and the “Exclusion Zone” location around the Chernobyl NPP. According to the scenario, an agent of the peacekeeping forces, nicknamed "The Photographer", arrives in the Zone to prevent a global scale catastrophe, which could be caused by an experiment that went out of control at a scientific lab.

Dead Sound
58%

Dead Sound(en)

2018-07-13

Four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land... any land.

The three musketeers tattoo
95%

The three musketeers tattoo(fr)

2019-10-15

Roonui Anania, Chimé and Purotu started tattooing themselves and tattooing in the street, by snatch, that means with sewing needles attached to match sticks, then electric razors. Indian ink in a beer cap and off we went. Then Tavana Salmon brought back the first pig tooth combs, which they were not able to use for long due to hygiene. Impossible to sterilize. We had to go back to the electric razor, look for solutions. This film tells the story of the rebirth of Polynesian tattooing, then its expansion, told by the three greatest masters of Polynesian tattooing.

Firmware
60%

Firmware(en)

2024-04-09

A young woman and her decommissioned military droid struggle to escape a nuclear exclusion zone, hoping to find a better life on the outside -- free from the oppression of the forces that keep her there.

Italian Miracle
60%

Italian Miracle(en)

2015-01-14

In a rural Italian village, Antonio is asked to translate an English-speaking woman's confession, but when he starts disagreeing with the priest, he has to make a decision that might change the course of her life and maybe his too.

Vegas
42%

Vegas(no)

2009-09-25

You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.

The Headless Rider
49%

The Headless Rider(es)

1957-09-18

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").

Similar Movies

Earth
66%

Earth(hi)

1998-09-16

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

Like Stars on Earth
80%

Like Stars on Earth(hi)

2007-12-21

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

Water
68%

Water(hi)

2005-09-08

The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.

Outsourced
64%

Outsourced(en)

2007-09-28

After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.

Rang De Basanti
71%

Rang De Basanti(hi)

2006-01-26

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.

Kissebaaz
35%

Kissebaaz(hi)

2019-06-14

Once partners-in-crime and wannabe prominent political figures, Shukla and Pandey turn foes when tragedy befalls. But, who is pitting them against one another, and why?

Fastey Fasaatey
0%

Fastey Fasaatey(hi)

2019-06-21

Modern day youngsters Aakash, Anisha, and Dev are caught in the traditional family values and while Aakash's family is forcing him to get married, he is trying his best to buy some time to marry his girlfriend Anisha. The free-spirited Anisha has her own pursuits and doesn't want to get married soon. Aakash uses the help of his best friend Dev who agrees to solve their problems.

Taish
60%

Taish(hi)

2020-10-29

A revenge drama, which revolves around two families based out of London. One family which plans an elaborate countryside wedding and the other is a violent criminal family of moneylenders. Amidst a week-long function, both these worlds collide. A past secret sparks an incident of violence - in turn changing all their lives drastically.

Trapped
69%

Trapped(hi)

2017-03-17

A man gets stuck in an empty high rise without food, water or electricity.

The Cloud Door
51%

The Cloud Door(hi)

1994-09-28

A very clever parrot lives in a Hindu palace, surrounded by many beautiful girls, but the parrot escapes, and is trapped far from the palace. One day, when its new owner is sleeping, the bird convinces a young boy to open the cage door. In return, it shows the boy a secret passage to get into the palace.

Unakkaga Naan
0%

Unakkaga Naan(hi)

1976-12-11

Line of Descent
52%

Line of Descent(hi)

2019-12-13

A classic crime narrative in the backdrop of Delhi merges a dysfunctional, mafia family at war with each other as an undercover officer fights his demons by assisting in their downfall.

Rani Rani Rani
0%

Rani Rani Rani(hi)

2022-07-24

A caretaker is trapped in a time loop with her husband on one hand, and his brother and ruthless sister-in-law on the other.

Housefull 4
57%

Housefull 4(hi)

2019-10-25

Three couples who get separated from each other due to an evil ploy, reincarnate after 600 years and meet each other as history repeats itself again and their respective partners get mixed up this time.

Pyar Ka Karz
58%

Pyar Ka Karz(hi)

1990-03-02

The Story of Ravi Shankar (Mithun) and his troubled life where he has to deal with love, infidelity and death which leads him to a life of crime..will he succumb to evil or can he drag himself out in time?

Mohabbatein
70%

Mohabbatein(hi)

2000-10-27

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

India Lockdown
44%

India Lockdown(hi)

2022-12-02

The Indian government announces a country-wide lockdown for 21 days due to the pandemic. India Lockdown encapsulates the story of four out of lakhs of individuals whose lives came to a standstill.

Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam
0%

Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam(pa)

1974-03-15

This Punjabi Movie, Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam is a Punjabi movie about Sikhism. It was a great success. It portrays the people's belief in the almighty god who is one and how life teaches a lesson to those who does not believe so.

Hawaa Hawaai
73%

Hawaa Hawaai(hi)

2014-05-09

Hawaa Hawaai is a story of the triumph of the human spirit; friendship and enjoying the journey of making ones dream come true. Arjun moves to the big city along with his mother and little sister. Out there he discovers a hidden world of in-line skating through coach Lucky, who mentors kids to become skating champions. While Arjun starts nursing the dream to learn skating under Lucky, his four friends get together to make this dream come true for him. In this endearing story of hope and aspirations, will Arjun's dreams take flight?

Akelli
63%

Akelli(hi)

2023-08-25

An Indian woman fights to survive in war-torn Iraq.