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Vanaprastham (The Last Dance) (1999)
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Official Selection Cannes Film Festival
A spectacular, internationally acclaimed epic featuring some of today's brightest stars in Indian Cinema Mohanlol and Suhasini along with the traditional Kathakali Master of Dance.
Vanaprastham takes place while India is still under British rule.Kunhikuttan is born to a low cast woman but is also the secret son of a high cast lord but he is never to meet his father.As he grows up, Kun wants to become a master dancer but an arranged marriage thwarts his plans.He still travels to perform and meets a beautiful woman of a higher cast with whom he has an affair.History repeats itself when his love affair produces a son.Kun struggles to reconcile his life as a man deprived of both his father and son, while shielding the daughter of his arranged marriage from the world awaiting her: a tragedy he knows all too well from the Mahabharata masterpiece he must now perform one last time in the house of his mistress.
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