One Day Before the Rainy Season

One Day Before the Rainy Season

119 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1971

A literary film based on a play in three acts, Ashad Ka Ek Din portrays the love of Mallika and Kalidasa, the renowned Sanskrit poet and dramatist. Vilom, a friend to both and interested in Mallika, is a passive onlooker for the first two acts. Kalidasa leaves his verdant mountain valley home for the splendour of far off Ujjain, where he wins fame. The action of the film is rooted in the village to which Kalidasa returns years later and finds Mallika married to Vilom and the mother of his child. Mallika sacrificed her love so that the poet could pursue his muse.

One Day Before the Rainy Season

119 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1971

One Day Before the Rainy Season
A literary film based on a play in three acts, Ashad Ka Ek Din portrays the love of Mallika and Kalidasa, the renowned Sanskrit poet and dramatist. Vilom, a friend to both and interested in Mallika, is a passive onlooker for the first two acts. Kalidasa leaves his verdant mountain valley home for the splendour of far off Ujjain, where he wins fame. The action of the film is rooted in the village to which Kalidasa returns years later and finds Mallika married to Vilom and the mother of his child. Mallika sacrificed her love so that the poet could pursue his muse.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers National Film Development Corporation of India
Original title अषाढ़ का एक दिन
Directors Mani Kaul
Writers Mohan Rakesh, Mani Kaul

Cast

Arun Khopkar

as Kalidasa

Rekha Sabnis

as Mallika

Om Shivpuri

as Vilom