Vidya lives a middle-class lifestyle in a virtually lawless town called Amarpur, India, along with her widower and disabled dad, Shambhu; married brother, Shiva and his wife, Lata; and her paternal grandma. She studies in the Arts Commerce and Science college in Bombay, and is summoned home to get married to a man of her family's choice, to which she reluctantly agrees. On the day of the marriage, a dancer performs an item which angers Mahadev, who is the Mukhiya of Mandaur, another lawless...
Acting
Nana Patekar's volcanic Thakur patriarch performance.
Direction
Singh's unapologetic commitment to melodramatic maximalism.
Director
Rajesh Kumar Singh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was director Rajesh Kumar Singh's only theatrical feature; he vanished into TV after its commercial failure despite the stacked cast.
The film's 'Mukhiya' power structure directly mirrors real Bihar-Jharkhand caste-panchayat violence that peaked in the early 2000s.
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