Ballad of Rustom

Ballad of Rustom

2014 · 117 min

Rustom works in a small government office in the countryside. Life for Rustom is wandering from place to place in the small town, spending time with Kapil who works on the suburban trains, living with the eccentricities of his boss, and being magically transported into his imaginary other world in the far reaches of this beautiful and lonely countryside which maybe undergoing a quiet upheaval that may disturb it's dark and mysterious worlds forever.

Directed by Ajita Suchitra Veera · Written by Ajita Suchitra Veera

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