Tarpan (film)

Tarpan (English title: The Absolution ) was a 1994 Indian Hindi drama film written and directed by K. Bikram Singh, and starring Om Puri, Revathy, Dina Pathak, Manohar Singh and Mita Vashisht in lead roles. This directorial debut film was jointly produced by NFDC and Doordarshan. 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.

The film was screened at Moscow International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival and Cairo International Film Festival.

Cast

 * Om Puri 	as Jassu Kaka
 * Revathy 	as Sumitra
 * Dina Pathak 	as Rammo
 * Manohar Singh as Sarpanch (Thakur Bir Singh)
 * Mita Vashisht as Lachmi
 * Ravi Jhankal 	as Joravar
 * Savita Bajaj 	as Chintho Singh
 * Virendra Saxena as Sukku Baba
 * Rajendra Gupta 	as Lakhan Singh
 * Vijay Kashyap as Phattu
 * Lalit Tiwari as Jeetu Thakur
 * Pavan Malhotra 	as Dhannu
 * Anang Desai     as  Pratap Singh
 * Babita Bhardwaj as Ganga
 * Pradeep Bhatnagar as Vaid
 * Rekha Kanda 	as Vidya
 * Madhvi Kaushik 	as Mrs. Jeetu
 * Usha Nagar 	as Dhannu's mom
 * Zahida Parveen 	as Santosh

Awards

 * Aravindhan award for best debut director.