Satah Se Uthata Aadmi
- IMDb link: 0081453
- IMDb rating: 7 (93 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Mani Kaul
- Cast: Bharat Gopy, Vibhuti Jha, Satyen Kumar, M.K. Raina and others
- Release year: 1980
- Runtime: 114 minutes
- Country: India
- Keywords: idealism, india, ethical, existential crisis, based on essay, hindi, philosophy, inequality, 1980, experimental film
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The inner turmoil of the intellectual caught between idealism and social compromise, blending poetry, voiceover, and symbolic imagery into a meditation on moral and political disillusionment.
Fragmented characters-often perceived as different facets of a single intellectual consciousness-grapple with moral doubt, political disillusionment, and social compromises. Through recited poems, introspective voiceovers, and symbolic scenes set against urban and industrial landscapes, the film depicts the crisis of an idealistic thinker confronted with corruption, inequality, and his own failures. The "man emerging from the surface" symbolizes the awakening of consciousness: a painful emergence from illusion toward a deeper social and existential truth.
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