Maa Bhoomi

Maa Bhoomi Telugu , English Our land is a 1980 Telugu drama film written and produced by B. Narsing Rao based on a play by Krishan Chander on the Telangana Rebellion in Hyderabad State. The film depicts a typical life of villagers under feudalistic society in Telangana region. It was the first feature film of director Goutam Ghose. The film was premiered at the International Film Festival of India, 1980, Indias official entry at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival of July 1980, the Cairo and Sidney Film Festivals. The film is listed among CNNIBNs list of hundred greatest Indian films of all time.

Ramaiah Rebels against the corrupt Nizam leadership in Hyderabad. When his wife has to submit to sexual coercion by the officials, he befriends the Communists and participates in the independence struggle. The peasants form various paramilitary groups and launch guerilla warfare attacks across the region with country made weapons. They raid and take over regional Dora bases across rural telangana at night and burn all the land documents found in the bases in the open yard symbolising their triumph. Eventually they take over the village after the Indian Independence.The Doras manage to escape to Hyderabad reporting the events to the Nizam leadership. The Nizam commands the Razakars, a private Islamist militia, which perpetuates a massacre over the Telangana peasants. After months of burning, looting, rapes and killings, the Indian army marches into Hyderabad and suppresses the Razakars and the Nizam with Operation Polo in September 1948 and annexes the Telangana region back into the Indian Union. In independent India, the ZamindarsDoras are returned to power by joining the Congress government. The Doras have abandoned the Nizam and pledged allegiance to the Congress Party. The Telangana people now find themselves facing the same struggle all over again. ........

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