INDIA | 101 Minutes | 2023 | T13
Director: Rahhat Shah Kazmi
Script writer: Rahhat Shah Kazmi
D.O.P: Luxmi Chand
Producer: Rahhat Shah Kazmi, Tariq Khan, Zeba Sajid, Namita Lal, Jayant Jaiswal
Art designer: Rakesh Dogra
Composer: Amir Ali, Tuhin K Biswas
Cast: Hina Khan, Shoib Nikash Shah, Ahmer Haider
Synopsis
Abhimanyu, an expert mountain climber falls into a strange and isolated society of “non-seeing” people – claimed to have been in existence for fifteen generations and cut off from the rest of the world. Abhimanyu decides quickly that “in country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”. He fails in his efforts and gets trapped instead. Adapted from the 1904 story of H. G. Wells of the same name. This is one of the Indian films sent to compete at the 2024 Oscars. The film’s script is archived and displayed by the Oscars Library for research and study purposes.
