New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- Imagine you're on the fringes of the Delhi arts scene in the late 1980s. A friend invites you to see a rare movie shoot in town. You head to the School of Planning and Architecture. The production is even smaller than you imagined. The director is married to the writer. The writer is the lead actor and production designer. Cast and crew joke around, smoke, flub their lines. You come away thinking it looks intriguing enough but not something that'd play in a cinema. Maybe on Doordarshan or straight to video.

This is what happened, sort of. In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones didn't release in cinemas. It played once on Doordarshan in 1989. Someone probably taped this, for it circulated for years on video cassette. Ove...