Sadgati | Superhit Hindi Movie |Om Puri, Smita Patil, Mohan Agashe

Sadgati (The Deliverance) is a 1981 Hindi film, primarily made for TV, by Satyajit Ray, based on a short story of same name by Munshi Premchand. The film is a vicious indictment of the Indian caste system; when a poor and out-caste, village shoemaker, Dukhi (Om Puri), goes to village Brahmin (Hindu priest) (Mohan Agashe) to get the date of his daughter's marriage fixed, the Brahmin in turn asks for labour without pay in exchange, the ensuing events however turn the table against the priest, who in the end has to fore-go all the lofty tradition, including that of untouchability, he held so dearly, all this life, in his life as village priest. Directed by: Satyajit Ray Written by: Amrit Rai, Satyajit Ray (Dialogue) Screenplay by: Satyajit Ray Story by: Munshi Premchand Based on: Short story Sadgati by Premchand Starring: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Mohan Agashe, Gita Siddharth, Richa Mishra Music by: Satyajit Ray Released in: 1981