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Tarpan

Tarpan

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Tarpan

1995

2h 20m

7.0(2 votes)

Drama

Overview

The film set in the 1940s, in a fictitious village in the Shekhavati region in Rajasthan, where no girl child survives beyond the age of seven. It deals with larger issues of communalism and caste system through four inter-related stories.

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Doordarshan

National Film Development Corporation of India

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Cast & crew

6 featured cast members

Starring

Om Puri

Om Puri

Jassu

Revathi

Revathi

Sumitra

Dina Pathak

Dina Pathak

Rammo

Manohar Singh

Manohar Singh

Chaudhary Veer Singh

Savita Bajaj

Savita Bajaj

Mita Vashisht

Mita Vashisht

Creative team

Directed by: K. Bikram Singh
Written by: K. Bikram Singh

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