Ghatashraddha
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| Ghatashraddha | |
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| Directed by | Girish Kasaravalli |
| Produced by | Sadanand Suvarna (Suvarnagiri Films) |
| Written by | U. R. Ananthamurthy (short Story) Girish Kasaravalli & K.V. Subbanna (Screenplay) |
| Starring | Meena Kutappa Amit Kumar Ramaswami Iyengar |
| Music by | B.V. Karanth |
| Cinematography | S. Ramachandra |
| Editing by | Umesh Kulkarni |
| Release date(s) | 1977 |
| Running time | 144 min |
| Country |  India |
| Language | Kannada |
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Ghatashraddha (The Ritual) is 1977 Kannada language film directed by Girish Kasaravalli. The film is based on a novella by eminent Kannada writer U R Ananthamurthy.
It won the 1978 National Film Award for Best Film and in 2002 became the only India film at the Film Archive of Paris, selected for the Cinema hundredth anniversary celebrations, amongst one of the best 100 in the world [1].
This was Girish Kasaravalli first feature film as a director, and marked not just the arrival of a new promising filmmaker but also that of Kannada cinema in the India's 'New Cinema' horizon [2].
The film won, Amit Kumar, the 1978 National Film Award for Best Child Artist, and the 1978 National Film Award for Best Music Direction for B.V. Karanth.
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The film was set in 1920s and depicts a rural village in Karnataka, where a young widow, the daughter of a village scholar who runs a local school, finds herself pregnant after being seduced by a teacher. While the girl remains unaware of the happenings within and around her, she is excommunicated by her father, who performs her funeral rites (Ghatashraddha), while she is still alive. A little boy through whose eyes the entire story is perceived goes back home, after the school is closed down following the incident.
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