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Sadgati
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Wikipedia article
'Sadgati' 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."Ray, Satyajit. 'The Chess Players and Other Screenplays'. London: Faber and Faber, 1989, p. 80.
Plot
The film is a vicious indictment of the Indian system. 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121022172128/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/150856/Sadgati/overview Overview] New York Times.
Cast
* Om Puri as Dukhi
* Smita Patil as Jhuria
* Mohan Agashe as The Priest
* Gita Siddharth as The wife
* Richa Mishra as Dhania
References
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