On the morning walk the aging judge is hesitant about being touched by the raging sea waves while the young lawyer takes the plunge. Frustrated by his own client’s enigmatic silence and unwillingness to provide a motive or proclaim his innocence, nor cooperate in the formulation of his own defense strategy, Baskhar embarks on an independent investigation into the facts surrounding the seemingly clear-cut case, leading him to a wary and evasive editor of the weekly periodical National Welfare who had recently published a case involving the mysterious death of another Adivasi tribeswoman at a hotel, his client’s equally inhospitable and guarded ancestral village as he attempts to interview Bhiku’s elderly father and young sister, a well-intentioned Marxist “social worker” (and perhaps, a Naxalite agitator) who has come to the remote country to help the tribal village organize a collective, and a wealthy businessman, Bhonsle and his politically connected cronies who employ the Adivasis as menial laborers for his lucrative logging operations. Watch | All about the Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes, Crossword blog #165 | Solve crosswords to be alert even if TGIF, Watch | A quick look at the oldest and youngest U.S. presidents, Watch | Forest fire in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands, Air pollution linked with 15% COVID-19 deaths worldwide, finds study, App Store apps, in-app purchases to get expensive in India, Bear cubs ride ‘palanquin’ to planned freedom in Arunachal, Train runs non-stop from UP’s Lalitpur to Bhopal to rescue ‘kidnapped’ girl, ‘Among Us’ online game hit with massive spam attack, Male govt. Added to Watchlist. We have been keeping you up-to-date with information on the developments in India and the world that have a bearing on our health and wellbeing, our lives and livelihoods, during these difficult times.

  | Photo Credit: 11dfraakrosh3. As a subscriber, you are not only a beneficiary of our work but also its enabler. View production, box office, & company info Photos. His scripts, combined with Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani’s direction and Satyadev Dubey’s dialogues exploded bombs under the audience’s chairs. We promise to deliver quality journalism that stays away from vested interest and political propaganda. | The film starred Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri and Amrish Puri in lead roles and went to win 1980 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in … At the end of the conversation the social worker calls Bhaskar an idealist, which is again a label. Om Puri, Veteran Bollywood Actor, Dies at 66. 30 March 2020

Bhaskar Kulkarni (Naseeruddin Shah), a fresh law graduate fights his case against his mentor Dusane (Amrish Puri). He plays bridge with the local politician, police officer and the sarkari doctor but still gets threatening calls for trying to break caste barriers. Bhiku (Om Puri) is a self respecting tribal who doesn’t bow down to the diktats of the lascivious forest contractor (Achyut Potdar). When Salim Javed were busy providing poetic justice in three hours, Vijay Tendulkar was grappling with the oppressive State machinery without any sugar coating.

In fact for the first 10 minutes of the film there is no dialogue but it doesn’t get into the way of storytelling. A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife. But this debut movie is not a one to be easily forgotten.

It was Nihalani’s first film as a director and you can sense certain rawness in treatment, a film school approach in shot taking but more often than not raw appeal is better than polished approach on celluloid. But we are placed in a system where those who can afford to buy can have the witness. 144 min A stoic and inscrutable man, Lahanya Bhiku (Om Puri), wearing a crude restraining device fashioned from rope tied across his torso, then advances with a lit torch towards what is revealed to be the funeral pyre for his late wife, Nagi, before being led away by the authorities to prison.