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Summaries. It is about a teenager from a Dalit (Oppressed caste) family, who lives at the village fringe, and falls in love with an upper caste girl. Love, the most beautiful emotion in all living creatures that God has made knows no bar, caste or boundaries, is the central theme of Fandry.
Fandry: Directed by Nagraj Manjule. With Somnath Awghade, Rajeshwari Kharat, Suraj Pawar, Kishore Kadam. It is about a teenager from a Dalit (Oppressed caste) family, who lives at the village fringe, and falls in love with an upper caste girl.
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- Drama, Family
- Nagraj Manjule
- 2014-02-14
Fandry (The Pig) [a] is a 2013 Indian Marathi-language film, written and directed by Nagraj Manjule in his directorial debut. It stars Somnath Awghade and Rajeshwari Kharat. The story focuses on a young boy's love amidst caste-based discrimination.
Sep 30, 2021 · The central plot of the story is an unrequited love story at the intersection of caste between the protagonist Jabya (played by Somnath Avaghade) who belongs to the Kaikadi caste – an oppressed caste community and Shalu (Rajeshwari Kharat) who belongs to an oppressor caste community of Maharashtra.
For much of the first three-quarters of its duration, Fandry ("Pig"), a Marathi-language Indian film about caste-based discrimination, behaves in a surprisingly polite, restrained, even tasteful, manner. Framed as a chaste, unrequited love story between a dark-skinned lower-caste Dalit teen and a lighter-skinned upper-caste girl from the same ...
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- Nagraj Popatrao Manjule
Jul 11, 2018 · While Fandry employs the cinematic language of the love story — the plot is framed around Jabya's crush on Shallu, a fair-skinned, "upper caste" girl in his class — the film is far from romantic.
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Feb 14, 2014 · Set in Akolner, a tiny village near Ahmednagar, Fandry portrays the dichotomous rural India of today, where a public toilet is a luxury but a touch-screen Android phone is almost ubiquitous. Jabya (Somnath Avghade), the film’s dark-skinned protagonist, is an awkward yet winsome teenager from a Dalit family who lives in a shack at the fringes ...