MIRCH MASALA KETAN MEHTA

  • INDIA

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  • HINDI

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  • 1987

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  • 128 mins

Subedars (tax collectors) in colonial India traveled from village to village with troops, demanding far more than taxes. When one of these tax collectors sets his gaze on Sonbai, she seeks shelter in a pepper factory, which inevitably leads to the village’s marginalised women speaking up.

ವಸಾಹತುಶಾಹಿ ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ತೆರಿಗೆ ವಸೂಲಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಸುಬೇದಾರರು ತಮ್ಮ ಸೈನ್ಯದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಹಳ್ಳಿ ಹಳ್ಳಿಗೆ ಅಲೆದಾಡುತ್ತಾ, ಕೇವಲ ತೆರಿಗೆಯನ್ನಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲದೆ ಅದಕ್ಕಿಂತಲೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನದ್ದನ್ನು ದಬ್ಬಾಳಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಕೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಇಂತಹ ಒಬ್ಬ ಸುಬೇದಾರನ ಕೆಟ್ಟ ದೃಷ್ಟಿ ಸೋನ್‌ಬಾಯಿಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಿದ್ದಾಗ, ಆಕೆ ರಕ್ಷಣೆಗಾಗಿ ಖಾರದ ಪುಡಿ ತಯಾರಿಸುವ ಕಾರ್ಖಾನೆಯೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ಆಶ್ರಯ ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ಈ ಘಟನೆಯು ಹಳ್ಳಿಯ ತುಳಿತಕ್ಕೊಳಗಾದ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು ಒಗ್ಗೂಡಿ ಧ್ವನಿ ಎತ್ತುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC)

Screenplay :

Shafi Hakim, Hriday Lani, Ketan Meht, Tripurari Sharma

Director of Photography :

Jehangir Choudhary

Editor :

Sanjiv Shah

Music :

Rajat Dholakia

Sound :

B.N. Tiwari

Cast :

Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Ratna Pathak, Supriya Pathak, Suresh Oberoi, Neena Kulkarni

Awards - Winner :

Hawaii IFF 1987 (East-West Center Award Best Narrative), National Film Awards 1987 (Golden Lotus Award: Best Feature Film)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

Moscow IFF(Golden Prize), Leeds IFF 2024 (Official Screening - Classic Retrospective)

Ketan Mehta (b. 1952, Navsari, Gujarat) studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). He is an Indian director, producer, and screenwriter, making films, documentaries and television series, after serving as a TV producer at ISRO. His key films include BHAVNI BHAVAI (1980), SARDAR (1993), MANGAL PANDEY: THE RISING (2005), and RANG RASIYA (2014). His films feature strong storytelling with allegorical, political undercurrents and humanist, socially aware narratives. His film MIRCH MASALA (1987) won the Best Narrative award at Hawaii IFF and the National Film Award's Golden Lotus for Best Feature Film.