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The Cleansing Rites

The Cleansing Rites

2005 EN 105 min

Overview

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.

Release date

01/01/2005

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An erstwhile feudal family struggles hard to perform the last right of a family member in the grand scale that it is supposed to do.

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Released

Original title

Suddha

Language

EN

Runtime

105 min

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