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'''''Arising from the Surface''''' (Hindi: सतह से उठता आदमी) is a 1980 Indian [[film]] directed by [[Mani Kaul]]. It was screened in the ''[[Un Certain Regard]]'' section at the [[1981 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1768/year/1981.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Arising from the Surface |accessdate=7 June 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930220634/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1768/year/1981.html |archivedate=30 September 2012  }}</ref> This is an essay film grounded in the writings of [[Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh]] the prominent 20th century Hindi writer, poet, essayist, literary and political critic. <ref>http://jkk.artandculture.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/ArtandCulture/jkk/pdf/pdf2017/programs/Brochure%20tah%20sathya.pdf</ref>

The screenplay of this film is based on two poems, two essays and six short stories by [[Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh]] and the title of film is taken from one of his short story used in the film. <ref>{{cite AV media |people=Waugh, Thomas |date=1988 |title=Mani Kaul - Interview with Thomas Waugh |medium=Youtube |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCe_zcmJfoY |access-date=5 July 2019|time=29:20 |location=Mumbai |publisher=Indian Doc Film}}</ref> The film is neither a biopic nor an adaptation, or an essay, nor fiction, and yet it engages with all these forms producing a cinematic text that defies any categorization. The narrative is fashioned around three characters: Ramesh ([[Bharath Gopi]]) who embodies Muktibodh's subjectivity where as Madhav (Jha) and Keshav ([[M. K. Raina]]) are his companions. All three saunter in and out of numerous [[mise-en-scène]], driven by the political, philosophical underpinnings of Muktibodh's universe.