In Ismail Merchant's adaptation of Anita Desai's novel, In Custody, Shashi Kapoor plays a disillusioned Urdu poet perturbed by the increasing modernisation around him. Playing upon the same are a bunch of sycophantic drink-buddies, more interested in the hospitality that follows than his actual creativity. Images of Kapoor weighed down by pigeons highlight the same.

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