Sanshodhan (1996)
The amendment in the law, making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourably by the ruling Sarpanch of the village, Thakur Ratan Singh. Although he puts up a front of being in favour of the idea, along with his son Inder Singh, he conspires to field wives of friends, whom he hopes he can control through their husbands and through the caste network. Vidya, wife of Bhanwar Singh who is indebted to the Thakur, is one of the newly elected women Panchayat members. Vidya, who is educated, notices that the political empowerment of women is only on paper and in reality decision-making still continues to be with the manipulative old guard. Vidya decides it is time for a change.
Director:
Govind Nihalani
Writers:
Govind Nihalani, Tripurari Sharma.
Manoj Bajpayee Bhanwar |
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Vanya Joshi Vidya |
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Kishore Kadam | |
Harish Khanna Hariya |
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Vineet Kumar | |
Utkarsha Naik | |
Lalit Parimoo Inder Singh |
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Ashutosh Rana Clerk in VDO's office |
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Kavita Rayirath Manju |
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Anupam Shyam Ratan Singh |
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Aditya Srivastava | |
Suhita Thatte | |
Amita Udgata | |
Hira Desai | |
Parag Waghmode | |
Sanjeev Watsa | |
Baba Mazgaonkar | |
Ajay Upadhyay |
Sound | Vishal Bhardwaj | Music |
Writing | Govind Nihalani | Screenplay |
Directing | Govind Nihalani | Director |
Editing | Govind Nihalani | Editor |
Writing | Govind Nihalani | Story |
Editing | Srinivas Patro | Assistant Editor |
Art | Nitin Chandrakant Desai | Art Direction |
Directing | Shivaji Dasgupta | First Assistant Director |
Sound | Prabal Pradhan | Sound |
Sound | Pankaj Seal | Sound |
Writing | Tripurari Sharma | Screenplay |
Writing | Tripurari Sharma | Dialogue |
Writing | Tripurari Sharma | Story |