Manthan (1976)
134 min
A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.
- Release date
- October 1, 1976
- Country of origin
- India
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Cast
- Girish Karnad as Dr. Manohar Rao
- Smita Patil as Bindu
- Naseeruddin Shah as Bhola
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Sarpanch
- Amrish Puri as Ganga Prasad Mishra
- Mohan Agashe as Deshmukh
- Anant Nag as Chandravarkar
- Sadhu Meher
- Savita Bajaj as Jillo
- Anjali Paigankar
- Hriday Lani
- Bhagwan Tiwari
- Salim Ghouse as Moola
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Village Head
- Rajendra Jaspal as Moti
Crew
- Shyam Benegal · Director
- Kaifi Azmi · Writer
- Shyam Benegal · Writer
- V. Kurien · Writer
- Vijay Tendulkar · Writer
- Vanraj Bhatia · Composer
- Govind Nihalani · Cinematographer