Ankur: The Seedling

Ankur: The Seedling

1974122 min6.2 / 10

A bleak, intimate portrait of rural poverty and social hierarchy in which a desperate woman's survival becomes entangled with desire and class transgression.

In a small Indian village, a destitute woman's barren, alcoholic husband absconds after stealing toddy. Alone to fend for herself, she ends up relying on the affections of her landlord's to-be-married son who recently returned to look after the estate.

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