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Mrityudand is a film of genre Drama directed by Prakash Jha with Madhuri Dixit
Mrityudand (1997)
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Add to a movie listMrityudand (The Death Sentence) is an Indian Hindi drama film released in 1997. It was directed and produced by Prakash Jha and stars Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Ayub Khan, Mohan Agashe and Om Puri.
The film is a commentary on social and gender injustice. As in his other movies, filmmaker Prakash Jha has focussed on the social problems that plague his native state of Bihar, India, and like his other movies this one straddles the boundary between art film and commercial film. The film also boasted of some semi-classical music, tuned by Anand-Milind and Raghunath Seth and worded by Javed Akhtar.
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It is set in the fictional village of Bilaspur, Bihar in 1996. The movie starts with the grisly portrayal of a mob killing of two defenceless women, orchestrated by vested interests, and how village power players later evade administrative inquiries into this atrocity. This incident sets the tone for much of the rest of the movie.Actors
Madhuri Dixit
(Ketki)
Shabana Azmi
(Chandravati)
Ayub Khan
(Vinay Singh)
Mohan Agashe
(Abhay Singh)
Om Puri
(Rambaran Mahto)
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