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Ranked #37 of 100
Manthan
मंथन · 1976
A vet arrives to build a milk cooperative and collides with caste, the local dairy monopoly and village politics. Funded by 500,000 farmers at ₹2 each.
- Director
- Shyam Benegal
- Year
- 1976
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri
Why it's at number 37
India's first crowdfunded film, and the clearest picture of how change actually happens in a village.
A vet arrives to build a milk cooperative and collides with caste, the local dairy monopoly and village politics. Funded by 500,000 farmers at ₹2 each.
Manthan sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shyam Benegal — also responsible for Ankur, Bhumika, Nishant.
- Released in 1976, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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