Nishant
Benegal, Shyam
Nishant videorecording directed by Shyam Benegal , India. - New Delhi Eagle Home Entertainment 1975 - 1 videodisc (143 min.) sd. col. 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1975
Nishant is a 1975 Hindi drama film directed by Shyam Benegal, based on an original screenplay by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar, with dialogues by Satyadev Dubey. Vishwam is the youngest brother of the powerful and influential village jagirdar. The jagirdar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. The shy and quiet Vishwam is married to Rukmani and, but his brothers Anjaiya and Prasad, make it a practice to demand the services of any village women they fancy. The village gets a new schoolmaster, who arrives in the village with a wife, Sushila, and a son. When Vishwam sees Sushila for the first time, he is unable to take his eyes off her, and unable to get her out of his mind. Sushila does not reciprocate his attentions. One night, while the schoolmaster is enjoying a quiet dinner with his family, someone knocks on the door and, when Shushila goes to answerr the door, the two older brothers of Vishwam grab her and take her away forcibly. Several people are present, but no one dares to raise a hand or voice to stop this abduction. At the jagirdar's house Sushila is raped regularly and repeatedly at the will of the jagirdar and his brothers. The distraught schoolteacher, who is denied justice by everyone from the local police officer to the district collector, is helped by the old priest of the village temple. They succeed in mobilizing the villagers who slaughter their oppressors. In the end the frenzied villagers also kill the innocent Rukmani as well as Sushila whom her husband was trying to rescue.
Girish Karnad, Shabana Azami, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Anant Nag, Smita Mohan Agashe, Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
5.1 Dolby Digital, NTSC All Regions
1.85.1 Anamorphic Widescreen Colour
In Hindi with English subtitles.
"National award winner in 1975 for best Hindi feature film."
Man women relationship - Drama - India, Culture - Drama - India , Feudalism., Abduction., Peasant uprisings., Spouses, Revenge, Motion picture - Hindi - India
791.43 / NI-
Nishant videorecording directed by Shyam Benegal , India. - New Delhi Eagle Home Entertainment 1975 - 1 videodisc (143 min.) sd. col. 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1975
Nishant is a 1975 Hindi drama film directed by Shyam Benegal, based on an original screenplay by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar, with dialogues by Satyadev Dubey. Vishwam is the youngest brother of the powerful and influential village jagirdar. The jagirdar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. The shy and quiet Vishwam is married to Rukmani and, but his brothers Anjaiya and Prasad, make it a practice to demand the services of any village women they fancy. The village gets a new schoolmaster, who arrives in the village with a wife, Sushila, and a son. When Vishwam sees Sushila for the first time, he is unable to take his eyes off her, and unable to get her out of his mind. Sushila does not reciprocate his attentions. One night, while the schoolmaster is enjoying a quiet dinner with his family, someone knocks on the door and, when Shushila goes to answerr the door, the two older brothers of Vishwam grab her and take her away forcibly. Several people are present, but no one dares to raise a hand or voice to stop this abduction. At the jagirdar's house Sushila is raped regularly and repeatedly at the will of the jagirdar and his brothers. The distraught schoolteacher, who is denied justice by everyone from the local police officer to the district collector, is helped by the old priest of the village temple. They succeed in mobilizing the villagers who slaughter their oppressors. In the end the frenzied villagers also kill the innocent Rukmani as well as Sushila whom her husband was trying to rescue.
Girish Karnad, Shabana Azami, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Anant Nag, Smita Mohan Agashe, Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
5.1 Dolby Digital, NTSC All Regions
1.85.1 Anamorphic Widescreen Colour
In Hindi with English subtitles.
"National award winner in 1975 for best Hindi feature film."
Man women relationship - Drama - India, Culture - Drama - India , Feudalism., Abduction., Peasant uprisings., Spouses, Revenge, Motion picture - Hindi - India
791.43 / NI-