Duvidha

A hypnotic and enigmatic ghost story derived from a Rajasthani folktale, Duvidha endures as a seminal contribution to the Indian cinema of the 1970s. A mischievous (and lonely) ghost seeking company fixates upon a beautiful young woman whose merchant husband is away on a five-year business trip (which began the day after their wedding!), so he transmutes himself into the man’s doppelganger. But the ghost’s plan goes awry when the husband finally returns home. One of Navroze Contractor’s earliest and most acclaimed films as a cinematographer, Duvidha is a strikingly stylized synthesis of folklore and cinematic modernism, as attuned to spectral vibrations as it is the rhythms, rituals, and textures of quotidian life.