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.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Rajasthan
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Music
Music by Rajat Dholakia
Details
- Director
- Writer
- K. Bikram SinghWriter
- Original title
- तर्पण
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 9, 1995
- Original language
- Hindi
- Countries
- India
Production
Cast
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