Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival - Agra

Presented By: Heinz College DICE

Sponsored By: SCREENSHOT: ASIA Film Festival

Original Title: Agra

Duration: 132 minutes

Country: India

Language: Hindi with English Subtitles

Director(s): Kanu Behl

Guru, a young man in his twenties, works in a call center in Agra. In love with Mala, a work colleague, he stills lives with his parents, whose house is divided in two parts. Guru lives on the ground floor with his mother while his father is upstairs with his mistress. when Guru announces that he wants to marry Mala, and make the terrace of the house his future bedroom, nothing goes as planned. Frustrations, faults and family hatreds come to light, symptoms of an Indian patriarchal society with many taboos.

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