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The Cleansing Rites
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The Cleansing Rites

2005-01-01 · 105 min · Not rated

Suddha depicts the death of the feudal system that existed among the Tulu speaking community in coastal Karnataka for many years, and the impact of The Land Ceiling Act, which was ushered in during the sixties and seventies, on its social structure. It is the story of modern India - of changing caste equations and a realisation of this reality among the land owning class, albeit a bit late. Though the film is set in a remote village near Mangalore, it could well have happened in any other village elsewhere in India. An ex-landlord family comes to terms with the fact that they are living in their last leg of feudal existence when it cannot perform a last rites in a grand manner in which it was once used to.

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Directors
Ramchandra P.N.
Production companies
Sonk Films
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Status
Released

Top Cast

Sharada DeviRadha
Bharathi JainJaaji
Jagatpal JainBooba
Saikrishna KudlaRavi
Aasha MarnadShobha
Gopal MarnadGopal
MohandasGuruva
Sujata MudradiRashmi
Subhash PadiwaalGuttinaar
Boja ShettyRamanna

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