Mahal (1949) (The Palace)

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" "Directed and scripted by Kamal Amrohi, the film is arguably the first significant Indian gothic. Despite subsequent imitations at regular intervals, it remains unsurpassed in the genre. Like the founding text of the English literary gothic, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), Mahal also foregrounds the space of a mansion/castle in its title. And it is the space (of the mansion) that triggers in the owner a desire to connect with a prior, repressed narrative. In the canonical li"