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The Churning

6.9 / 10

134 minutes

1976-10-01

Hindi

IN

Actors :

Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Naseeruddin Shah, Mohan Agashe, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri, Sadhu Meher, Savita Bajaj, Abha Dhulia, Anjali Paigankar, Hriday Lani, Bhagwan Tiwari, Suresh Bedi, Manubhai Patel

Description

A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.