The Cleansing Rites

Story

Synopsis

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.

Writers

Ramchandra P.N., Narayana Nandalike

Language

English

Release date

1 January 2005

Ensemble

Cast

• Sharada Devi

  Radha

• Bharathi Jain

  Jaaji

• Jagatpal Jain

  Booba

• Saikrishna Kudla

  Ravi

• Aasha Marnad

  Shobha

• Gopal Marnad

  Gopal

• Mohandas

  Guruva

• Sujata Mudradi

  Rashmi

• Subhash Padiwaal

  Guttinaar

• Boja Shetty

  Ramanna