Vilaap

Shama and Ravi are members of a Marxist party. Shama loves classical Indian music, a luxury of a few, and Ravi is in love with quotations and the philosophy of Marx - a need of the masses. Due to a strike, Ravi is compelled to work full-time for the party. Shama decides to give up music reluctantly and joins Ravi.

People are involved in daily encounters without ever being aware of how they are connected with one another. A taxi reveals all.

Aditya has been suffering from muscular dystrophy since theage of l1. Now 25, he has been in hospital for 2 months. Heis a Former chess champion. In his subconscious mind, heplays chess with Death and keeps defeating him, unaware oflittle time left with him. In the hospital he meets a 12 year oldgirl. Aditya gets the idea of donating his eyes to her after hisdeath. That gives birth to the idea of donating his organswhen he is still alive. He confides this idea to his mother whofirst gets disturbed but then talks about it to the doctors.Doctors refuse it as it would be mercy killing, which is not permissible in India. His mother files the suit to supreme court which gets turned down. Aditya dies few days later, Only his eyes get donated

The journey of news coming alive, when an athlete featured on the front page falls in love with a tennis starlet featured on the last page of a newspaper.

9-year-old Bittu battles a mysterious fever, an affliction that deepens with an unfamiliar stirring within him as he watches his uncle’s young wife, Kusum, longing for a husband who toils far from home.

The passage from adolescence to youth is a phase during which a girl emerges in a distinctive period of her life to another significant phase. Most often there is a synchronous transition in her physical state with that of her emotional state of mind. This film poignantly depicts such a transition in a girl's life. Her changing attitudes towards her playmates, and objects around are brought out very vividly in this film.

FTII Diploma film by Mani Kaul

The protagonist is a young man staying in a city. He is sensitive, melancholy and a dreamer. He is unable to communicate his feelings to the woman he loves. Everything seems to have been entangled in a mesh, irrespective of these characters. He cannot even differentiate between his capability to love and his passionate desires which have been repressed. That is how he is confused and with his ideals and morality he is living outside his own time and inevitably suffering. His self criticism is endless. He dreams about whatever he lacks and about his ideals. The dreams have led him to the domain of non-communication. His repressed passion along with his self criticism has made him bored with life. Now at every point he expects something exceptional.

A cynical young man and a romantic young womanencountered each other on a night bus journey. Eachspins a story around the other. It turns out that she isgoing to meet someone, she has never seen before. Heis apprehensive. She herself is not so sure.

A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave inhis office. A third finishes his tea. Another getshimself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in theworld of crime: kidnapping to he more precise. Butthe father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up.The son has already played this trick before andcollected good ransom. The father does not believethis time it is a real thing, The kidnappers getdesperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.

When Suman has to go to her mother's house, Bharat asks her to write which she refuses saying that he doesn't know how to keep it to himself. Bharat promises to find the right place for it. She is adamant but writes nonetheless and Bharat has to keep his promise now. And so begins his search for his corner in the space that belongs to many.