Sadgati
Sadgati | |
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Directed by | Satyajit Ray |
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Screenplay by | Satyajit Ray |
Based on | Short story Sadgati by Premchand |
Produced by | Doordarshan |
Starring | Om Puri Smita Patil Mohan Agashe Gita Siddharth |
Cinematography | Soumendu Roy |
Edited by | Dulal Dutta |
Music by | Satyajit Ray |
Release date |
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Running time | 52 min[1] |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Sadgati (transl. Salvation [or] Deliverance) is an 1981 Hindi television film directed by Satyajit Ray, based on a short story of same name by Munshi Premchand. Ray called this drama of a poor Dalit "a deeply angry film [...] not the anger of an exploding bomb but of a bow stretched taut and quivering."[2]
Plot[]
The film is a vicious indictment of the . When a poor and low-village cobbler, Dukhiya (Om Puri), who lives with his wife Jhuria (Smita Patil), goes to the village Brahmin (Mohan Agashe) to fix the date of his daughter's marriage, the Brahmin asks for unpaid labour in exchange. The cobbler is made to sweep the house and cut wood for him. Dukhi does all of these work without having eaten since morning. The ensuing events turn the tables against the priest, who in the end has to forgo the lofty traditions, including that of untouchability, that he has held so dearly all his life.[3]
Cast[]
- Om Puri as Dukhi
- Smita Patil as Jhuria
- Mohan Agashe as The Priest
- Gita Siddharth as The wife
- Richa Mishra as Dhania
References[]
- ^ Satyajit Ray (2 April 2013). Satyajit Ray on Cinema. Columbia University Press. pp. 158–. ISBN 978-0-231-53547-2.
- ^ Ray, Satyajit. The Chess Players and Other Screenplays. London: Faber and Faber, 1989, p. 80. ISBN 0-571-14074-2
- ^ Overview New York Times.
External links[]
- 1981 films
- Films directed by Satyajit Ray
- Indian films
- 1980s Hindi-language films
- Hindi-language films
- Films based on short fiction
- Films about the caste system in India
- Films about poverty in India
- Adaptations of works by Premchand
- Films with screenplays by Satyajit Ray
- Doordarshan television films
- 1980s Hindi-language film stubs