Word: ananga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deference. But soon, Gangacharan becomes like everyone else, hungry and helpless to do much about it. "There is no rice," a merchant swears to him. "I would not lie to a Brahmin." He would, of course, and does; the villagers all suspect it. There are food riots. Ananga (Babita), Gangacharan's wife, lowers herself to work grinding rice while some still remains. When that too is gone, she goes out to the fields to dig up roots and wild potatoes...
Soon people start to die, in roads and fields. A young woman, an Untouchable, cries out deliriously for fish curry. Ananga gives her what she has, placing it right near the girl's hand: roots torn from the ground. But the girl dies, eyes open, without reaching out. A child, who has been watching and waiting for hours, comes out from behind a bush and car ries the food away...
...triumph of Distant Thunder is Ray's humanism, his careful, measured naturalism. The film, shot in color, is beautiful and direct, sophisticated not in plot but insight. In the last scene, Ananga tells Gangacharan she is pregnant...
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