Arohan

Hari Mondal(Om Puri) is a poor village farmer who lives in the remote Bengal village of Giripur in Birbhum district with his wife, two sons, brother, an old widowed aunt Kalidashi (Gita Sen)and her daughter Panchi. The movie opens in the mid sixties when the Naxalbari uprising is spreading across Bengal and oppressed farmers are being united by youths who believe in communism and a socialist republic.

Country:

India

Genre:
Duration:

144 minutes

Year:

1983

Director:

Shyam Benegal

Cast:
Victor Banerjee

Jotdar Bibhutibhushan Ganguly

Pankaj Kapur

Village Teacher

Om Puri

Hari Mondal

Sreela Majumdar

Panchi

Jayant Kripalani

Senior District Magistrate Jayant Kripalani

Crew:
Shyam Benegal

Director

Shama Zaidi

Writer

Bhanudas Divakar

Editor

Govind Nihalani

Director of Photography