Ankur

Lakshmi (Shabana Azmi) lives in a village with her husband Kishtayya (Sadhu Meher), a deaf-mute alcoholic potter who communicates using gestures. Surya (Anant Nag), the son of the village landlord, has just finished his studies in the nearby city of Hyderabad and arrives back home. He begins to exert his authority by introducing a number of different laws and measures, many of which are controversial among the village people. The villagers have begun to gossip, and many (most notably the overseer, Police Officer Patel Sheikh Chand) believe that he has already