Director: Manmohan Mahapatra; Writer: Manmohan Mahapatra; Producer: Manmohan Mahapatra; Cinematographer: Raj Sekhar, B. Bindhani; Editor: Satyendra Mohanty; Cast: Hemanta Das, Niranjan Patnaik, B. Tripathi, R. Das, Jaya Swami, Manimala
Summary: Mahapatra’s melancholic rural realism,
deployed on an expanded canvas, tells of three
peasants confronting a dastardly landlord. One
of the friends goes crazy trying to find buried
treasure in order to recover his land; another
goes to the city where he finds even worse
forms of exploitation; the third has a more
complicated problem: his daughter falls in love
with an employee of the landlord. He too loses
his land and has to migrate, but in the process
delivers the film’s ‘voice of hope’, suggesting
that if sufficient numbers of people feel the
way he does, the future might still be bright.
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