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Ankur is a complex film that analyzes human behaviour in general and heavily stresses characterisation (though the story is not fictional). The story revolves around two characters, Lakshmi and Surya.
Jan 2, 2019 · Ankur: The Seedling: Directed by Shyam Benegal. With Shabana Azmi, Sadhu Meher, Anant Nag, Priya Tendulkar. Belonging to a lower caste, Lakshmi and her deaf-mute husband Kishtayya serve the landlord's son, Surya.
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Aug 13, 2020 · Ankur is a 1974 film by Shyam Benegal that explores the themes of caste, gender, and industrialism in rural India. It depicts the forbidden relationship between a Dalit woman and a landlord's son, and the social and moral dilemmas they face.
Oct 20, 2020 · A film analysis of Shyam Benegal's 1974 classic Ankur, which explores the themes of alienation, oppression and rebellion in rural India. The article highlights the metaphoric and psychological aspects of the story, the characters and the ending.
Jul 15, 2017 · Ankur was the first feature film directed by Shyam Benegal and the debut film of Shabana Azmi and Anant Nag. The film was shot in Hyderabad and it is based on a true story that occurred in ...
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Ankur tells the story of Lakshmi, a young and serious village woman who works as a housemaid in the landlord's house and who is married to a deaf-mute man who keeps drinking. She sets on an affair with the landlord's son, Surya, who came to the village on his father's insistence to run the family business.
In Shyam Benegal’s stunning first narrative feature, the ne’er-do-well son of an absentee landlord is dispatched to oversee his father’s land, whereupon he takes as his mistress the poor housekeeper Lakshmi, igniting a series of devastating complications.
