Manthan

Name: Manthan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1976-10-01
Duration: 2 h 14 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri

मंथन (1976)

2:14 (134 min)

Drama

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Actors and characters

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Production

Gujarat Milk Co-Op Marketing Federation Ltd.

Release date

1 October 1976

Director

Shyam Benegal

Scenario

Verghese Kurien

Author

Actors

Dr. Manohar Rao

Bindu

Bhola

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Sarpanch

Amrish Puri

Ganga Prasad Mishra

Mohan Agashe

Deshmukh

Anant Nag

Chandavarkar

Abha Dhulia

Shanta

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Short description

A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.