But by the time in which this movie is set, our national cinema had moved on from provincial realism through the brief Swinging London period to the industrial oblivion from which it is still suffering.
She will never escape the tyranny of her desires, never avoid the anguish into which her romantic conceits deliver her, never claim the oblivion she sought from what is perhaps the most excruciating slow suicide ever written.
Rescuing as many bottle tops as possible from the oblivion of the kitchen trash can was as distinct from dragon hoarding as may be!
So were you also trying to rescue Von Neumann's architecture from the oblivion accorded it by popular history?
It took Charles B Darrow, a Philadelphia engineer, who retrieved the game from the oblivion of the Patent Office and dressed it up a bit, to get it going.
The World Trade Organisation, born at the end of the Uruguay round in 1994, has been saved from the oblivion to which a failure might have condemned it.
Or about an outsider who upsets the status quo or perhaps that outside is attempting to save a man from the oblivion his servants seem to desire for him.
No one does, because the best critics of those times knew that many, even most, of those best-sellers deserved, in the long term, merely an oblivion from which all the ballyhoo and all the short-term commercial popularity couldn't and wouldn't, ultimately, save them.
"Oblivion" from "Oblivion": The stand-out piece on M83's score to the Tom Cruise sci-fi flick was the film's closing song, an outgrowth of the score that does away with many of its more traditionally cinematic trappings.
Odissi, which came the closest to oblivion, derives from the state of Orissa on India's east coast; Karnataka, including Nrityagram, is southwest and largely inland.
