CinemaOSMovie · 2005 · 1h 45m

The Cleansing Rites

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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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.

Directed byRamchandra P.N.

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 45m
Language
EN
Released
January 1, 2005
Studios
Sonk Films

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SUDDHA - The Cleansing Rites (3 minutes)

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Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring

Sharada Devi

Radha

Bharathi Jain

Jaaji

Jagatpal Jain

Booba

Saikrishna Kudla

Ravi

Aasha Marnad

Shobha

Gopal Marnad

Gopal

Mohandas

Guruva

Sujata Mudradi

Rashmi

Subhash Padiwaal

Guttinaar

Boja Shetty

Ramanna

Creative team
Directed by
Ramchandra P.N.
Ramchandra P.N.
Written by
Ramchandra P.N.
Ramchandra P.N.
Narayana Nandalike
Produced by
Ramchandra P.N.
Ramchandra P.N.

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