Shudra: The Rising is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language film with a partly-fictional storyline based on the caste system in ancient India. It is directed by Sanjiv Jaiswal and dedicated to Dr B. R. Ambedkar.
Most of the movie was shot in the jungles on the outskirts of Lucknow.[1]
Plot
Shudra: The Rising is set in the time of the Indus Valley civilization and has a storyline that concerns the caste system of ancient India.
The initial part narrates the arrival of the people of west Asia to India. They were of the Aryan race and they take over the local tribe and start controlling them. Finally a learned scholar, Manu Rishi, creates a caste system which classifies the local population as Shudras, who then suffer from cruel social rules. They are suppressed and exploited at every level of their lives by the upper caste people. The film shows various rules imposed on the Shudras such as walking with a bell around their ankles and a long leaf behind their back, and a pot hanging around their neck when the bell rings Brahmins got know that the lower caste are near them so upper caste can make distance from them.
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