Maharashtra Sanskritik Diwas 2018

 

Sairat (174 min; 2016; dvd; Marathi with English subtitles)

Director: Nagraj Manjule

 

The film will be introduced by Suhas Borker

 

Recipient of the Special Jury Award (Feature Film), 63rd National Film Awards 2016; and 11 awards at the Filmfare Marathi Awards 2017 including for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor-Female

 

Sairat is a path breaking film which brings caste discrimination and caste-based violence to the fore in mainstream Marathi cinema. Said to be the highest-grossing Marathi film till date, director Nagaraj Manjule sets the film in his own village, Jeur in Karmala Taluka of Solapur district, Maharashtra to tell the story of a fisherman's son and a local politician's daughter who fall in love against the restrictions of caste hierarchy

 

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Sanskritikani Rananiti Adhyayan Samiti)