The Outsider (1977)

Name: The Outsider
Genre: Drama
Released: 1977-04-01

1h 56m

Running Time

Plot.

A father living on the fringes of a village believes that working is a fool's errand, for the lord takes what little the workers make. When a young woman enters their home, tensions begin to rise and their idle life is threatened. The film is based on the story ‘Kafan’ by Munshi Premchand

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Cast & Crew.

M. V. Vasudeva Rao

Venkaiah

G. V. Narayana Rao

Kistaiah

Mamata Shankar

Nilamma

Pradeep Kumar

Krishna A.R.

Eadi Kondala Rao

The One Scolding Kistaiah for smoking

Gangadhar Naskar

Editor

Mrinal Sen

Director

K.K. Mahajan

Director of Photography

Yandamuri Veerendranath

Writer

Vijay Raghava Rao

Original Music Composer

Pattabhirama Reddy

Producer

Munshi Premchand

Short Story / Original Story

Mohit Chattopadhya

Screenplay

Details.

Release Date
April 1, 1977

Original Name
ఒక ఊరి కథ

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 56m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2024-08-07

Wiki.

Oka Oori Katha (English title: The Marginal Ones; Telugu: ఒక ఊరి కథ) is a 1977 Indian Telugu-Language drama film directed by Mrinal Sen. The Pan-Indian film is based on the story Kafan by Munshi Premchand. The Marginal Ones was one of the Indian entries at the 4th Hong Kong International Film Festival. It was featured in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Carthage Film Festival, and the Indian Panorama section of the 7th IFFI.It won the "Special Jury Prize (Karlovy Vary IFF)"; and the Best Feature Film in Telugu at the 25th National Film Awards, "for successfully transforming Premchand's story "Kafan" into a scathing commentary on rural destitution and social injustice; for projecting through powerful performances of its leading characters, the degradation and brutalisation of human beings, for its sincere commitment to the cause of the downtrodden; for its fervent impassioned appeal to the conscience of humanity" as cited by the Jury.