Bara

Name: Bara
Director: M.S. Sathyu
Released: 1982-10-01
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Anant Nag, C. R. Simha, Pankaj Dheer, Shivaram, Uma Shivakumar

1982

1h 57m

Director: M.S. Sathyu

Writers: Javed Siddiqui, Shama Zaidi

Overview

Based on the Kannada novel Bara by eminent writer U. R. Ananthamurthy, the story deals with the politics of famine in Karnataka. An idealistic officer eventually succumbs to bureaucratic apathy - famine relief arrives, but too late. Simultaneously shot in Hindi as Sookha; that version was released in 1983.