The IMDb time for this movie claims it is six minutes long. The film I looked at was six minutes in length, but claims to have been the first part of a feature.
It's part of the Indian epic Ramayana, in which Lanka, the wife of an Indian prince, is abducted by Hanuman for his master; I am familiar with part of it from the cartoon SITA SINGS THE BLUES. Anna Salunke play Lanka; Ganpat Shinde plays Hanuman, capering about with a long tail and occasionally doubled by a monkey.
There's a lot of cultural cues here which escape me, but are apparent from what survive. It's an early and interesting surviving fragment.
It's part of the Indian epic Ramayana, in which Lanka, the wife of an Indian prince, is abducted by Hanuman for his master; I am familiar with part of it from the cartoon SITA SINGS THE BLUES. Anna Salunke play Lanka; Ganpat Shinde plays Hanuman, capering about with a long tail and occasionally doubled by a monkey.
There's a lot of cultural cues here which escape me, but are apparent from what survive. It's an early and interesting surviving fragment.
