A reporter gambles his life to abolish the death penalty—then his own father lands on death row.
The movie is about a reporter who concocts a false case so as to get himself convicted for first degree murder so that he can prove that the death sentence can be given based on circumstantial evidence and that it be done away with. However, by the time he is out of the prison proving his innocence, his father is falsely arrested in another murder case and is awarded a death penalty!
Acting
Dr. Rajkumar's controlled desperation hits like a gut punch.
Writing
The premise is so cruel it's almost brilliant.
Direction
Swamy builds dread through bureaucratic inevitability.
Director
Y R Swamy
Dr. Rajkumar
Shekhar
Bharathi Rao
Shobha
K. S. Ashwath
Bhairappa , Shekhar's father
Kalpana
Mala
Rajesh
Somnath
T. N. Balakrishna
Subba Rao
T. R. Narasimharaju
Kapinipathi Rao
Sampath
Sadashiva Rao
Thoogudeepa Srinivas
Muniya
Vajramuni
Gopal, CID Inspector
Shakti Prasad
Jail Superintendent
Shani Mahadevappa
Thammayya
Dinesh
Devappa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bidugade emerged during a period of debate about capital punishment in India, with the 1970s seeing several high-profile wrongful conviction cases that influenced public discourse.
Dr. Rajkumar reportedly took a reduced fee for this socially conscious project, believing in its message—a rarity for a superstar at his peak.
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