RASHOMON - EKA KHUNACHE RANGATDAR RAHASYA

RASHOMON (1950) is a Japanese crime drama, produced with both philosophical and psychological overtones. The film was directed by Akira Kurosawa.

In ancient Japan, a woman is raped and her husband killed. The film gives four viewpoints of the incident - one for each defendant - each revealing details. Which version, if any, is the real truth?



A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashomon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove.

Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajomaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium.

The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajomaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at Rashomon that he knows more than he let on at the trial, thus bringing into question his own actions. But another discovery at Rashomon and the resulting actions from the discovery bring back into focus the woodcutter's own humanity or lack thereof.
The Marathi theatrical adaptation has been done by Jaya Dadkar.

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