Saturday 3 December 2016

Milking it

Manthan (1976)

Directed by Shyam Benegal this film stars Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil and Naseeruddin Shah. A veterinarian and his team travel to a village in rural India to encourage the locals to set up a milk cooperative.

An early example of crowd funding this film despite being funded by milk farmers themselves shows a balanced narrative rather than being pure propaganda. Showing both the positive and the negative sides of characters the film explores the economic and caste issues with a good amount of depth. There are good performances from the cast and the direction is solid as well.


4/5

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