A grim look at the reality of caste structure, local politics, highly pre-dominant patriarchial system in villages. The film takes an example of one village in which one idealist is trying to implement a co-operative system for production of milk but the village sarpanch and the local dealer are preventing it through means foul rather than fair. Anything and everything goes in a village including a cooked up sexual rape charge, local politicians currying favour with the higher levels at the state and national levels to influence decisions which favour them. This movie was made in 1976 but i am sure that even today, there are thousands of such villages in India, where the caste structure and feudal lordship predominate. The panchayat system of governance is more broken than successful. Such a sorry state of affairs. Brilliant acting by Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad & Smita Patil. Quite an underrated touch of brilliance by Shyam Benegal.
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