Shodh
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| director = Biplab Roy Chowdhury
| producer = Sitakant Misra
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| starring = Om Puri
| music = Santanu Mohapatra
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| released = {{Film date|1979}}
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| country = India
| language = Hindi
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Shodh is a 1979 Bollywood ghost movie directed by Biplab Roy Chowdhury and produced by Sitakant Misra, based on the Bengali book Gorom Bhat O Nichhok Bhooter Goppo (Steaming Rice and a Ghost Story) by Sunil Gangopadhyay.{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema|author=Gulzar |author-link=Gulzar |author2=Govind Nihalani |author3=Saibal Chatterjee |publisher=Popular Prakashan|year=2003|isbn=81-7991-066-0 |page=337 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&q=Sahib+Bibi+Aur+Golam+Bimal+Mitra+%28novel%29&pg=PT361 }}
Plot
Surendra, having been exiled from his village in youth and established himself in the city, comes back to the news of his father's demise, reportedly at the hands of a phantom. He announces a prize for anyone who succeeds in showing him a ghost, which attracts the greed of the poor hungry peasants, resulting in the accusations of innocent people as haunted, and even murders with the hope of producing a ghost.
Cast
- Om Puri – Surendra
Awards
- 1980 – National Film Award for Best Feature Film{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m5ZtAAAAMAAJ&q=shodh+national+award |title=Asian recorder, Volume 26 |publisher=K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press |year=1980 |access-date=29 June 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120630140324/https://books.google.com/books?id=m5ZtAAAAMAAJ&q=shodh+national+award&dq=shodh+national+award&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yr_tT7ORPMTOsgb6hZGPDw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA |archive-date=30 June 2012 }}
- 1980 – National Film Award for Best Cinematography – Rajan Kinagi
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0267924|title=Shodh}}
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Category:1970s Hindi-language films
Category:Films based on Indian novels
Category:Best Feature Film National Film Award winners
Category:Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography National Film Award
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