Sadhu Meher

Lockdown Classics: Ankur (1974)

At a time when brutal oppression is a way of life, when a girl gets molested on the street by a mob while civilized society watches in mute submission, it’s befitting to remember the celebrated finale in Ankur when after watching a mute-and-deaf peasant being whipped by a bratty Zamindar son, a little boy picks up a stone and hurls it at the glass windowpane of the oppressor. It was a decisive moment when Hindi cinema resolved to turn revolutionary. Shabana Azmi ,Sadhu Meher and Anant Nag , all new to the movie camera, were brought in to play out a triangular drama where the peasan | Click Here...