IHC 35mm Film Screening Club. Sangtye Aika (35mm/1959/Marathi with English subtitles/144 mins) Dir. Anant Mane. Mahadev, a tyrannical landowner in a village in Maharashtra, is obsessed with power and glory. When Sakharam, a poor farmer, dares to challenge him in the annual bullock-cart race and overtakes the other competitors despite a broken wheel, Mahadev’s pride is wounded. Determined to teach Sakharam a lesson, he enlists the dacoit Savlya, setting off a chain of treachery and violence that threatens Sakharam, his beautiful wife Hamsa, and even Savlya himself. But, Chima, a folk dancer, finds a way to make Mahadev pay for his atrocities. Collab. NFDC-National Film Archive of India.

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