Director: Sanjeeb Hazarika
Summary: aka The Verdict
1994 122’ col Assamese
d Sanjib Hazarika pc Nirmali Arts, Narayanpur
p Jayanta Hazarika, Mahadeb Borkotoky
st Nirupama Borgohain sc Ranjit Sharma
c Mrinalkanti Das m Sher Choudhury
lp Monami Bezbarua, Arun Nath, Narmada Das
Devi, Bidyut Chakraborty, Indra Bania, Tilak
Das, Kuki Hazarika, Nikumani Barua
Miserabilist tale set in the Assamese
countryside of the widowed Sushila’s
(Bezbarua) futile search for justice when the
evil Zamindar Harekrishna (Sharma) rapes her.
Harekrishna in turn accuses her of arson. Her
troubles continue when she is bailed out by the
businessman Bishnu (Chakraborty) in return
for becoming his sexual ‘property’. Eventually,
she is rescued by Harekrishna’s weak assistant
(Nath), who loved her but was unable to stand
up to his evil master. The director is a former
playwright and actor (e.g. Agnisnan, 1985)
who made one earlier feature, Haladhar
(1992).
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