Maa Bhoomi (1979)

2h 32min | Drama | Jan 1, 1979 | Released

Set during one of India’s main peasant risings, the Telangana insurrection between 1945 and 1951 in the pre-Independence state of Hyderabad, the Bengali director’s first feature tells the story of Chander’s best-known novel (Jab Khet Jaage (1948)) from the peasant’s point of view. A young peasant, Ramiah, rebels against the corrupt rule of the nizam, and when his girlfriend has to submit to the potentate’s sexual coercion, Ramiah leaves. He befriends a Marxist activist (the rising was CPI-inspired) and participates in the Independence struggle.

Director: Goutam Ghose

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Writer(s): Goutam Ghose B. Narsing Rao Partha Banerjee Pran Rao

Story: Krishan Chander