Understanding Scenario of Casteism in Twentieth Century India through Satyajit Ray Film Sadgati

Abstract

This article tries to emphasis the actual scenario of Casteism in twentieth century of India solely on the basis of Satyajit Ray's film 'Sadgati' (1981). Although this article doesn't focus on film theories and criticism of 'Sadgati' as a film but on sociological aspect of castesim in India. 'Sadgati' is a Hindi movie but in this article the dialogues of the movie as per requirement is translated by author. The original story was written by Premchand but here we try to focus only on the film made by Ray based on that story. This theoretical study focuses on how was the scenario of Casteism which includes higher caste's oppression, suppression, marginalization and exploitation towards lower caste with reference to 'Sadgati'. Simultaneously, we try to analyze the relevance of Ray's portrayal in the movie with the actual scenario. For that we have taken some secondary sources as evidence of fact.