
Pataal Bhairavi
1985


7 votes
A desperate filmmaker drives a neurotic actress and an aging musician to a village of trauma.
Director
Kabir Singh ChowdhryWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
Hindi
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Imitiaz Ali's _Chamkila_ led me to hunt this down. Went in thinking this was a documentary on his life and death, and within like 5-10 mins you realise it's not. Sure enough, sites list this as either drama or docu-drama or docu-fiction or if you believe Google, it's drama/short. It's neither. It has real-life characters playing a fictionalised act, and fictional characters chasing the ghosts of slain real-life people. The legend or the ghosts these characters are after are very larger than life and this has an impact on the film we watch as it gets into a very surreal territory at most tim…
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