Amma's husband is shot by the cops after he kills a man who tried to rape Amma. After this event, she moves to a slum where two men use her but also love her.
Acting
Smita Patil's final scene — absolute devastation in silence.
Cinematography
Ashok Mehta's sweaty, claustrophobic slum compositions.
Direction
Dharmaraj's single feature before he vanished from cinema.
Director
Rabindra Dharmaraj
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chakra adapts Jayaprakash Karnik's Marathi novel and was banned briefly for 'defaming' Bombay police.
This was Smita Patil and Naseeruddin Shah's third collaboration that year; their chemistry here is volcanic, messy, and absolutely unsanitized.
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