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Release Date:
March 23, 1979
Original Title:
మా భూమి
Alternate Titles:
Maa Bhoomi
Maabhoomi
Our Land
The Motherland
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Chaitanya Chitra
Production Countries:
India
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 152
Set during one of India’s main peasant risings, the Telangana insurrection between 1945 and 1951 in the pre-Independence state of Hyderabad, the Bengali director’s first feature tells the story of Chander’s best-known novel, Jab Khet Jaage (1948), from the peasant’s point of view. A young peasant, Ramiah, rebels against the corrupt rule of the nizam, and when his girlfriend has to submit to the potentate’s sexual coercion, Ramiah leaves. He befriends a Marxist activist (the rising was CPI-inspired) and participates in the Independence struggle.
Cinematography:
Kamal Naik
Dialogue:
B. Narsing Rao
Director:
Goutam Ghose
Music:
Goutam Ghose
Vinjamuri Seetha Devi
Nagabhushanam
Screenplay:
Goutam Ghose
Partha Banerjee
Pran Rao
B. Narsing Rao
Story:
Krishan Chander
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