Manusangada (2017)

Original title

மனுசங்கடா

Directed by

Amshan Kumar

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

U

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A drama based on real events that shows how Dalit communities in India organize to demand their basic human rights. It follows people facing long standing mistreatment as they push for change in contemporary society.

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What happens

Manusangada (English title: We are Humans) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language indie drama film directed by Amshan Kumar. The film is based on a true story about the signaling of the rise of Dalit struggles in contemporary India against long standing human rights violations. The title 'Manusangada' is from Inquilab's poem of the same name and literally means 'We are humans too.' The film had its world priemere in Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and its International Premiere at the Cairo International Film Festival. It was also selected in the Indian Panorama section of International Film Festival of India, Goa and was the only Tamil film to be selected that year. The film has also won the Best Feature Film award from the Puducherry Government in its 35th Indian Panorama Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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