Ankur
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Shyam Benegal
Anant Nag
Mirza Qadir Ali Baig
Priya Tendulkar
Shabana Azmi
Sadhu Meher
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Surya, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns home from the city after graduating from school and is expected by his father to get married and take over a piece of land. He settles in not without conflict with the other people from the village, whose traditions he does not share. He uses his position to begin a love affair with Laxmi, who is unhappily married to a deaf-mute drunk. When Laxmi is left by her husband, Surya invites her to live at his house, much to the disdain of everybody else, who see this as a breach of the caste system. Their love affair ends abruptly when Surya's wife arrives. Rather than keeping to his promises, Surya drives Laxmi out of the house; when it turns out that she is pregnant, she suddenly becomes a threat that must be disposed of. The final scene of this movie raised many eyebrows upon its release in 1973, as it was seen as a disquieting symbol of rebellion against the country's social structures. Shabana Azmi's compelling performance as Laxmi laid the foundation for her becoming one of the great actresses of the independent Indian cinema of the 1970s and 80s.
Director
Shyam Benegal
Cast
Anant Nag
Mirza Qadir Ali Baig
Priya Tendulkar
Shabana Azmi
Sadhu Meher
Agha Mohammed Hussein
Hemant Jeshwantrao
Master Satyanarayan
Shesham Raju
Hameed Rashim
Aslam Akhtar
Syed Yakoob
Jagat Jeevan
Kaleem Siddiqui
Tulsi Bai
Subhash Singh
Ahman Akhtar
Daleep Tahil
John Israel
Swadesh Paul
Sultano Bano
Mahendra Dutt
Suguna Reddy
Ram Allam
Crew
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal
Vanraj Bhatia
Lalit M. Bijlani
Mohan J. Bijlani
Mangesh Desai
Pandit Satya Dubey
Pandit Satya Dubey
Mahendra Dutt
Kamath Ghanekar
Kamath Ghanekar
Prahlad Kakar
Krishan Malik
K K Mathur
Ram Mohan
M G Mulay
Govind Nihalani
Deepak Prashar
Aziz Qaisi
Ishwarlal G Sharma
Freni M. Variava
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1974
Released in United States March 1977
Released in United States November 1974
Shown at London Film Festival November 1974.
Feature directorial debut for documentary filmmaker Shyam Benegal.
Released in United States 1974
Released in United States November 1974 (Shown at London Film Festival November 1974.)
Released in United States March 1977 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Contemporary Cinema) March 9-27, 1977.)
