Schatten der Zeit

Ravi has settled in his dreary fate as indented boy-laborer in a textile plant outside Calcutta, making sure he earns and saves more than other boys to buy his release. When naive young Masha is sold into service by her debt-crushed father, Ravi falls in love with her and rather than see her sold as a private maid-of-all-work, he spends his savings on her release. They agree to meet in Calcutta's largest Shiva temple once he's free. Being the captive of his own skill, that takes years--while she becomes a brothel's star. Ravi arrives as a man; unable to find her, he agrees to become an old carpet trader's brilliant right hand--and nearly becomes the fiancé of the man's beloved granddaughter Deepa until fate forces her to marry affluent customs official Yani. Will true loves Ravi and Masha ever meet again?

Schatten der Zeit is a 2005 drama romance movie directed by Florian Gallenberger, starring Irrfan Khan, Tillotama Shome, Prashant Narayanan. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.6/10 from 1,177 votes and runs 2h 2m.