Deserted by their households to lives of penury, marked by white veils which they put on, Bengali widows discover solace and meals within the ashrams of Vrindavan the place they collect each morning and night to sing spiritual songs. On this profoundly shifting documentary on widowhood portrayed each as social establishment and private custom, moments of astonishing sensuous magnificence alternate with rhythms of anguish. In one of the best of the brand new ethnographic custom, ‘Moksha’ de-centres the voices of authority and permits a plurality of voices to introduce contesting positions. Haunting in it_s evocation of grief and anger, the movie transcends documentary and assumes it_s place within the nice custom of lamentation, the expression of the darkish evening of the human soul.
