Manhole (2016)
മാന്ഹോള്
A movie on the modern victims of manual scavenging, a social menace in India that has its roots in caste stratification.
- Date of release
- 2016-12-11
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Vidhu Vincent
Casting
- Munshi Baiju — Murugan
- T S Saji — Government Lawyer
- Shylaja J — Pappathi
- Sunnykutty Abraham — Activist Lawyer
- Renu Soundar — Shalini
Interesting facts
Manhole is a 2016 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Vidhu Vincent, depicting the life and struggles of a manual scavenger's daughter. The film was adjudged the Best Film of the year 2016 by the jury for the Kerala State Film Awards 2016 and the director of the film was selected as the Best Director of the year 2016. This made Vidhu Vincent the first woman to win the Best Director Award in the history of Kerala State Film Awards since its inception in 1969. According to jury chairman Apurba Kishore Bir, Manhole was the unanimous choice among the jury members for convincingly bringing the plight of the marginalised on screen.
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