Maya Darpan

Taran is the daughter of a wealthy landlord and lives with her father and her widowed aunt in their ancestral mansion after India’s independence in 1947. The town is witnessing protests by newly formed labour unions which are partly being politically educated by the local railroad engineer, who seems to have an unspoken romantic relationship with Taran. Taran’s unseen brother, who had, to the chagrin of their father, renounced his class privileges and gone off to an Assamese tea estate, asks Taran to join him. (Seminci - Valladolid International Film Festival)