I Am Sindhutai Sapkal
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Anant Mahadevan
Neena Kulkarni
Upendra Limaye
Anant Mahadevan
Sanjay Pawar
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One woman's journey to overcome terrible odds, and in so doing, she becomes a saint-like savior of many. Sindhutai Sapkal grew up in a poor family in 1950s rural Maharastra, where women have few rights. Although she is keen to get an education, her mother forces the 12-year-old to get married to a 30-year-old man. Spending the rest of her youth at her in-laws, she is the family minion, and beaten when she tries to read. Inspired by her visiting father, however, she develops her own mind. At the age of 23, and pregnant with her third child, she has more confidence and speaks out for the rights of women workers, but is cast out of her home after false claims that she has been unfaithful. Abandoned by all, humiliated and starving, she finds herself with a new-born, scavenging graveyard offerings. Yet, by pure determination, she turns her life around, and ends up adopting many abandoned children, becoming known as Maa.
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Anant Mahadevan
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Released in United States 2011
Released in United States 2011 (World Cinema Now)
