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Based on the Kannada novel Bara by eminent writer U. R. Ananthamurthy, the story deals with the politics of famine in Karnataka. An idealistic officer eventually succumbs to bureaucratic apathy - famine relief arrives, but too late. Simultaneously shot in Kannada as Bara, which was released in 1982.
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Audiences 72GoodWatch 81
IMDb7.2
Running time
1 h 59 min
A typical length for dramas, +10 min on the typical 109
typical 109119Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Released
1983
July 22, 1983
43 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Hindi
Original language
Made in
India
Directing · 1
- M.S. Sathyu Director, Producer
Writing · 3
- Shama Zaidi Writer
- Javed Siddiqui Writer
- U. R. Ananthamurthy Novel
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