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Tarpan (English title: The Absolution) was a 1994 Indian Hindi drama film written and directed by K. Bikram Singh, and starring Om Puri, Revathy, Dina Pathak, Manohar Singh and Mita Vashisht in lead roles. This directorial debut film was jointly produced by NFDC and Doordarshan. 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.
The film was screened at Moscow International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival and Cairo International Film Festival.




Cast


Om Puri as Jassu Kaka
Revathy as Sumitra
Dina Pathak as Rammo
Manohar Singh as Sarpanch (Thakur Bir Singh)
Mita Vashisht as Lachmi
Ravi Jhankal as Joravar
Savita Bajaj as Chintho Singh
Virendra Saxena as Sukku Baba
Rajendra Gupta as Lakhan Singh
Vijay Kashyap as Phattu
Lalit Tiwari as Jeetu Thakur
Pavan Malhotra as Dhannu
Anang Desai as Pratap Singh
Babita Bhardwaj as Ganga
Pradeep Bhatnagar as Vaid
Rekha Kanda as Vidya
Madhvi Kaushik as Mrs. Jeetu
Usha Nagar as Dhannu's mom
Zahida Parveen as Santosh




Awards


Aravindhan award for best debut director.




References






External links


Tarpan at IMDb
Tarpan (streaming Online) Cinemas of India (NFDC)

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