1979 · drama · political · peasant
Maa Bhoomi
Directed by Goutam Ghose2h 32m1979
Set between 1945 and 1951 in the pre-Independence state of Hyderabad, the film tells the story of a young peasant, Ramiah, who rebels against the corrupt rule of the Nizam. Baring witness to the oppression and hardship faced daily by those around him, Ramiah leaves his village. However, after befriending a Marxist activist and participating in the Independence struggle, he eventually returns to wage guerilla warfare against the landlord class.
Our read: Maa Bhoomi (1979) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · political · peasant entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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