The Cleansing Rites
01/01/2005
Suddha depicts the death of the feudal system that existed among the Tulu speaking community in coastal Karnataka for many years, and the impact of The Land Ceiling Act, which was ushered in during the sixties and seventies, on its social structure. It is the story of modern India - of changing caste equations and a realisation of this reality among the land owning class, albeit a bit late. Though the film is set in a remote village near Mangalore, it could well have happened in any other village elsewhere in India. An ex-landlord family comes to terms with the fact that they are living in their last leg of feudal existence when it cannot perform a last rites in a grand manner in which it was once used to.
Movie Information
Sharada Devi
as Radha
Bharathi Jain
as Jaaji
Jagatpal Jain
as Booba
Saikrishna Kudla
as Ravi
Aasha Marnad
as Shobha
Gopal Marnad
as Gopal
Mohandas
as Guruva
Sujata Mudradi
as Rashmi
Subhash Padiwaal
as Guttinaar
Boja Shetty
as Ramanna
