Manthan (1976)
October 1, 1976Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Smita Patil
Bindu

Girish Karnad
Dr. Manohar Rao

Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Sarpanch

Naseeruddin Shah
Bhola

Mohan Agashe
Deshmukh

Anant Nag
Chandavarkar

Amrish Puri
Ganga Prasad Mishra

Sadhu Meher

Savita Bajaj

Abha Dhulia

Anjali Paigankar

Abha Ranjan
Shanta Rao

Shyam Benegal
Director / Story

Vijay Tendulkar
Screenplay

Verghese Kurien
Story

Kaifi Azmi
Writer

Bhanudas Divakar
Editor

Vanraj Bhatia
Music

Govind Nihalani
Cinematography

P.G. Mulay
Colorist

Girish Ghanekar
Assistant Director

Prahlad Kakar
Assistant Director

Dayal Nihalani
Assistant Director

Kalpana Lajmi
Assistant Director

Swadesh Pal
Costume Designer

Panchami Ghanekar
Costume Designer

K. Kanti
Assistant Camera

Yusuf Sheikh
Assistant Camera

Mohammad Hussain Kalsikar
Sound

Vishwanath Govekar
Makeup Artist

Hitendra Ghosh
Sound Recordist

Mangesh Desai
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Shama Zaidi
Art Direction

Dina Pathak
Dialect Coach

Niti Sagar
Lyricist

Priti Sagar
Playback Singer

Amar Sandhu

Hriday Lani

Bhagwan Tiwari

Suresh Bedi
Media.


Details.
Release DateOctober 1, 1976
Original Nameमंथन
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 14m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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Manthan, also released under the translated title The Churning, is a 1976 Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal, inspired by the pioneering milk cooperative movement of Verghese Kurien, and written jointly by him and Vijay Tendulkar. It is set amidst the backdrop of the White Revolution of India. Aside from the great measurable success that this project was, it also demonstrated the power of "collective might" as it was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each. Manthan is the first crowdfunded Indian film.
The film won the 1977 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and National Film Award for Best Screenplay for Vijay Tendulkar, and was also India's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976. A restored version was released in the Cannes Classics section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
The title song ("Mero Gaam Katha Parey") was sung by Preeti Sagar. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for that year. The song was later used as the soundtrack for the television commercial for Amul.
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