They Call Me Chamar

  • Run time: 16 min
  • Premiere: 1979. September 27.

About 30 km away from Varanasi there is a small village of Dhakvan, where lives a Brahmin named Ram Dayal Dixit who has been living among Harijans, like a Harijan. He has also married a Harijan girl. This act of his invited a great wrath from the caste Hindus. He had to suffer a lot. Ram Dayal a fighter for the cause is not afraid of being called a chamar. But his story very sharply reveals the caste-ridden society that India is, particularly in its villages of north India.

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Crew

N. Narasingha Rao

Cinematography

Directing

Loksen Lalvani

Director

Editing

Jai Singh

Editor

Production

A.J. Abraham

Production Assistant

Mushir Ahmad

Production Executive

Sound