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Manthan
A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.
Cast
- Girish Karnad as Dr. Manohar Rao
- Smita Patil as Bindu
- Naseeruddin Shah as Bhola
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Sarpanch
- Amrish Puri as Ganga Prasad Mishra
- Mohan Agashe as Deshmukh
- Anant Nag as Chandavarkar
- Sadhu Meher
- Savita Bajaj
- Abha Dhulia as Shanta
- Anjali Paigankar
- Hriday Lani
Details
- Director
- Shyam Benegal
- Released
- October 1, 1976
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Gujarat Milk Co-Op Marketing Federation Ltd.
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.6 / 10 from 17 votes
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