My favourite Indian film of all time.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan is a genius, and this one film is perhaps all you need to convince yourselves of that. Uploaded in high quality with hardcoded English subtitles.

To quote the great Adoor himself,
“Everything is ambivalent about [Ajayan’s] upbringing. The doctor whom he calls his father is not his real father… His brother is not his real brother, but like one. There is a certain duality about his perceptions… As soon as we start making sense of reality, it turns into something else… Cinema is after all a series of frames and the reality within them. But then there is a reality outside it as well. Which one is real, the one within the frame or outside of it? When the camera changes angles, lenses, or alters positions, the frame also changes. So here the reality is altered, qualified or even negated… The film, in fact, is a more organized dream made up by the conscious mind.”