Round 8: Tossup 15

A nonlinear 1973 film set in this state, in which the newly-married Lacchi (“LUH-chee”) is impregnated by a ghost that manifests as her husband, has a score featuring the instruments of this state’s Muslim Manganiar people. That film set in this state is Mani Kaul’s Duvidha (“DOO-vee-dah”). In an Independent Spirit Awards acceptance speech for a film set in this state, a director told the audience (-5[1])not to fly the awards’ sponsor American Airlines because they lost his “fucking luggage,” forcing him to use a camcorder and a drone to shoot the film. This state is where Sonny hosts a group of elderly Britons in (*) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. A 2015 documentary depicts this state’s local musicians playing Qawwali-inspired compositions by Shye Ben Tzur and Jonny Greenwood in Mehrangarh (“MAY-rahn-gud”) Fort. For 10 points, Paul Thomas Anderson filmed Junun (“joo-NOON”) in what Indian state’s (-5[1])desert city of Jodhpur? ■END■ (10[3]0[3])

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