Kalank--VERY GOOD Indian movie of which there are many on Amazon Prime--It is sort of like the

Merchant and Ivory film, When the Rains Came or Romeo and Juliet.

Set in 1945 in Pakistan before the Partition.

It's also like a sort of opera or rock opera with a lot of Bollywood-style song and dance sequences, but really well-written. Recognizable Ramayana which I have also seen in Burma (fragments) and in Bali--complete with golden deer, magic circle,Laksmana and the monkey army and Hanuman.

It was Zawgyi's article in the Atlantic or his verbal comment when I first heard about it. Thank you, Saya Zawgyi.

In Kalank, everyone is good-looking and it's the Hindu-Muslim romance I have been looking for.like the Buddhist-Muslim love story I am always looking for, but reality belies me. This story also looks like it might end badly.

I stopped watching at this point.

kmk

9-5-2025