Satah Se Uthata Aadmi 1980 col – Dramatic Movie | Gopi, Vibhuti Jha.

Director: Mani Kaul
Producer: Ashok Vajpayee
Music: Zia
Main Cast: Gopi, Vibhuti Jha.
Genre: Drama
Release: 1981

Synopsis: The narrative is constructed around three characters. Ramesh (Gopi) is the one who speaks and enacts Muktibodhs writings, functioning as the first person voice of the text; his two friends, Madhav (Jha) and Keshav (Raina), are Rameshs antagonists and interculotrs esp. in the debates about modernity. Kaul gradually minimises the fictional settings until, in the remarkably shot sequences of the factory, the audience is directly confronted with the written text itself. Kaul had begun his studies of Dhrupad music, the classical North Indian music known mainly for its extreme austerity, and derived a number of cinematic styles from this musical idiom which have influenced all his films sicne: e.g the continously mobile camera, the use of changing light patterns and the importance of improvisation.