Bawandar

Shoba T. Mathur works for the Central Government in India and her job is to create awareness against child-marriage and other social evils that prevail due to general misinterpretation of the Hindu Shastras that demean women, particularly in Dhabri, a village in the state of Rajasthan. She does succeed in recruiting a young housewife, Saanvri, the mother of a young girl, Kamli, and wife of rickshaw driver, Sohan. Saanvri goes around the village raising awareness, and incurs the wrath of the village elders, mostly members of the Gujjar family.

Cast

Nandita Das

Saanvri

Raghubir Yadav

Sohan

Deepti Naval

Shobha Devi

Rahul Khanna

Ravi

Laila Rouass

Amy

Govind Namdeo

Dhanraj Meena

Lillete Dubey

Anita

Ishrat Ali

Purnia Gujjar

Yashpal Sharma

Sarju

Anupam Shyam

Mangal Panda