The Cleansing Rites (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.
Director: Ramchandra P.N.
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Sharada Devi as Radha |
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Bharathi Jain as Jaaji |
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Jagatpal Jain as Booba |
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Saikrishna Kudla as Ravi |
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Aasha Marnad as Shobha |
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Gopal Marnad as Gopal |
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Mohandas as Guruva |
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Sujata Mudradi as Rashmi |
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Subhash Padiwaal as Guttinaar |
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Boja Shetty as Ramanna |
| Directing | Ramchandra P.N. | Director |
| Writing | Ramchandra P.N. | Writer |
| Production | Surendra Kumar | Co-Producer |
| Production | Mohan Marnad | Co-Producer |
| Production | Ramchandra P.N. | Producer |
| Crew | Sameer Mahajan | Cinematography |
| Editing | Ramchandra P.N. | Editor |
| Production | Surendra Kumar | Casting |
| Art | Sujata | Set Designer |
| Crew | Sujata | Prop Maker |
| Writing | Narayana Nandalike | Writer |
