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Trishagni

6.8 114 mins Drama   Romance   1988
National Film Development Corporation of India  
Director(s): Nabendu Ghosh

The film, which won the 1988 National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director for its "excellent exploration of complex philosophical theme for the first time in Indian cinema," is set in the Buddhist town of Sariput in the desert of Central Asia in the 1st century B.C. The town is struck by a devastating sand storm that leaves behind only four survivors: two monks and two children taking refuge in the monastery. Twenty years later, the monks have become old, while the boy and the girl have grown and fallen in love. The jealous monk deceitfully persuades the boy into becoming a monk, yet the girl wins him back, as a result both are expelled from the monastery, and that is when the sandstorm strikes once again..

Casts of Trishagni

Nana Patekar

as Ajja/Uchanda

Pallavi Joshi

as Iti

Alok Nath

as Thera/Pithumitta

Nitish Bharadwaj

as Nirvana

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