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Director
  
Puttanna Kanagal

Country
  
India

7.6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
Kannada

Release date
  
7 March 1979 (1979-03-07)

Based on
  
Dharmasere  by Jada Bharata

Dharmasere (Kannada: ಧರ್ಮಸೆರೆ, The Religious Bind) is a 1979 Indian Kannada language film directed by Puttanna Kanagal, based on a novel by Jada Bharata of the same name, and starring Aarathi and Srinath in the lead roles. The supporting cast features Sathyapriya, Musuri Krishnamurthy, Shivaram and Jai Jagadish.

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Plot

This movie explores the plight of a dumb young woman (Aarathi). Srinath the hero falls in love with Aarathi's younger sister. But the father of the girls is in the Dharmasere (the religious bind) that he can't get his younger daughter married even as the elder daughter is unmarried. So he requests Srinath to marry both of them even if it is a symbolic marriage to the elder dumb girl. As fate would have it, the younger one fails to beget offspring. Desperate for an offspring, Srinath turns to Aarathi and she promptly begets a child. This movie is a poignant portrayal of young dumb women of that era, the scorn, humiliation and neglect they faced from the society.

Cast

  • Srinath
  • Aarathi as Tunga
  • Sathyapriya
  • Musuri Krishnamurthy
  • Shivaram
  • Sathyabhama
  • Jai Jagadish
  • Chandrashekar
  • Soundtrack

    The music of the film was scored by Upendra Kumar and lyrics penned by Vijaya Narasimha.

    References

    Dharmasere Wikipedia
    Dharmasere IMDb Dharmasere themoviedb.org