The film set in the 1940s, in a fictitious village in the Shekhavati region in Rajasthan, where no girl child survives beyond the age of seven. It deals with larger issues of communalism and caste system through four inter-related stories.
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Om Puri
Jassu
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Sumitra
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Ravi Malik
Rajat Dholakia
K Bikram Singh
Dina Pathak
Rammo
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Devdas
Gol Maal
Babita Bhardwaj
Ganga
Manohar Singh
Chaudhary Veer Singh
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Party
Tamas
Pradeep Bhatnagar
Vaid
Savita Bajaj
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Uski Roti
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Anang Desai
Pratap Singh
Mita Vashisht
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Sense8
K. Bikram Singh Director · Venu Cinematographer Renu Saluja Editor
United States release October 1, 1995 · Produced in India · Production National Film Development Corporation of India
Production
Doordarshan
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National Film Development Corporation of India
Production
India
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Original title
तर्पण
Original language
Hindi
Spoken on screen
Hindi
Release dates
India · August 9, 1995
Theatrical
United States · October 1, 1995
Chicago International Film Festival
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