As a result of his young son’s death, Lakhinder,
descending from a family of bird-catchers,
develops a mania for releasing captive birds,
estranging his wife in the process. He turns
increasingly inwards, rejecting the cruelty of
the bird market in Calcutta and eventually also
releasing his wife. At the end of this lyrical
movie with exquisite panoramic and tracking
shots, he is ‘saved’ by the birds as they (in an
ironic reversal of the end of Hitchcock’s The
Birds, 1963) enter his hut and offer him their
protection.
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