Manusangada

Manusangada (2018)

மனுசங்கடா

Cry Humanity

When a caste discrimination prevents a villager from giving his deceased father a rightful burial, he takes his fight for equality to court.

Date of release
2018-10-12
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
Director
Amshan Kumar

Casting

Interesting facts

Manusangada is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language indie drama film directed by Amshan Kumar. The film is based on a true story about the signaling of the rise of Dalit struggles in contemporary India against long standing human rights violations. The title 'Manusangada' is from Inquilab's poem of the same name and literally means 'We are humans too.'

Development and production

Amshan Kumar chanced upon a news clipping of the incident in 2016, he set aside a screenplay of a William Shakespeare adaptation that he had been working on. Manusangada was shot with a handheld camera in a series of shots with the aesthetic that reflects the reality at hand. Kumar wanted to film it in a docu-drama style with a tragic narrative. The filming was completed in 22 days and was shot on location.

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