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	Here the victim is shown so traumatized by excessive oppression and violation of his humanity, that he does not utter a single word almost for the length of the film and only bears a stunned look,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.freshnews.in/om-puri-444 \|title=Om Puri at freshnews\|work=Fresh News\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020223703/http://www.freshnews.in/om-puri-444 \|date=20 October 2007\|archive-date=20 October 2007 }}</ref> though later he uses the same violence as a tool to express his own sense of violation and rage.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/09/02/stories/1302017i.htm \|title=Ashish Nandy on Violence in Vijay Tendulkar's works\|work=Hindu \|access-date=10 December 2007 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405191222/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/09/02/stories/1302017i.htm \|archive-date=5 April 2008 \|url-status=dead}}</ref>		Here the victim is shown so traumatized by excessive oppression and violation of his humanity, that he does not utter a single word almost for the length of the film and only bears a stunned look,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.freshnews.in/om-puri-444 \|title=Om Puri at freshnews\|work=Fresh News\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020223703/http://www.freshnews.in/om-puri-444 \|date=20 October 2007\|archive-date=20 October 2007 }}</ref> though later he uses the same violence as a tool to express his own sense of violation and rage.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/09/02/stories/1302017i.htm \|title=Ashish Nandy on Violence in Vijay Tendulkar's works\|work=Hindu \|access-date=10 December 2007 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405191222/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/09/02/stories/1302017i.htm \|archive-date=5 April 2008 \|url-status=dead}}</ref>

	Basically, the story is of a peasant who is oppressed by landowners and his foremen while trying to eke out a living as a daily laborer. His comely wife, played by [[Smita Patil]], is raped by the foreman who then has him arrested to hide his own crime. His wife commits suicide out of shame.		Basically, the story is of a peasant who is oppressed by landowners and his foremen while trying to eke out a living as a daily laborer. His comely wife, played by [[Smita Patil]], is raped by the foreman who then has him arrested to hide his own crime. His wife commits suicide out of shame.

	Soon after his father's death, the police bring him to the funeral grounds in manacles and shackles to complete the last rites of his dead father. Standing beside the burning funeral pyre, he sees the foreman looking at his pre-pubescent sister with lustful eyes. Divining the fate that is in store for her, he grabs an axe and chops off his sister's head to forestall her dire future as a perpetual victim, as he sees it. Upon completion of this hapless act of a desperate and downtrodden man, he raises his face towards the skies and screams, and screams and screams – the second time that we hear his voice in the movie (the first is in a flashback, as he vainly attempts to rescue his wife) — a device similar to [[Andrei Tarkovsky]]'s showing of the icons in brilliant color at the end of his three-hour black-and-white film ''[[Andrei Rublev (film)\|Andrei Rublev]]''.		Soon after his father's death, the police bring him to the funeral grounds in manacles and shackles to complete the last rites of his dead father. Standing beside the burning funeral pyre, he sees the foreman looking at his pre-pubescent sister with lustful eyes. Divining the fate that is in store for her, he grabs an axe and chops off his sister's head to forestall her dire future as a perpetual victim, as he sees it. Upon completion of this hapless act of a desperate and downtrodden man, he raises his face towards the skies and screams, and screams and screams – the second time that we hear his voice in the movie (the first is in a flashback, as he vainly attempts to rescue his wife) — a device similar to [[Andrei Tarkovsky]]'s showing of the icons in brilliant color at the end of his three-hour black-and-white film ''[[Andrei Rublev (film)\|Andrei Rublev]]''.
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{{Short description|1980 film by Govind Nihalani}}
{{About||the 2010 Ajay Devgn film|Aakrosh (2010 film)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Aakrosh
| image = Aakrosh80.jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Govind Nihalani]]
| producer = Devi Dutt [[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]]
| writer = [[Vijay Tendulkar]]
| starring = [[Naseeruddin Shah]] [[Smita Patil]] [[Amrish Puri]] [[Om Puri]]
| music = [[Ajit Varman]]
| cinematography = [[Govind Nihalani]]
| editing = Keshav Naidu
| distributor = Krsna Movies Enterprise
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1980}}
| runtime = 144 minutes
| country = India
| language = [[Hindi]]
| budget = {{INRConvert|0.80|c|year=1980}}
| gross = {{INRConvert|1.22|c|year=1980}}

}}
'''''Aakrosh''''' ({{trans|Anger}}) is a [[Bollywood films of 1980|1980]] [[Hindi]] [[arthouse film]] directed by [[Govind Nihalani]] and written by Marathi playwright [[Vijay Tendulkar]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kumar|first1=Anuj|title=Blast from the past - Aakrosh (1980)|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/aakrosh-1980/article5894708.ece|work=The Hindu|date=10 April 2014}}</ref> The film stars [[Naseeruddin Shah]], [[Om Puri]] and [[Amrish Puri]] in lead roles and went on to win 1980 [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi]] and several [[Filmfare Awards]].

It won the 'Golden Peacock' for the Best Film at the [[International Film Festival of India]].<ref>{{cite web|title=NFDC films |url=http://www.geocities.com/curlybraces/movies/hindimovies.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019200018/http://geocities.com/curlybraces/movies/hindimovies.htm |archivedate=19 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

This was a debut film of Nihalani, who went on to be known for his dark and frighteningly real depictions of human angst in other landmark alternative movies such as ''[[Ardh Satya]]'' and ''[[Tamas (film)|Tamas]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2007-weekly/nos-09-12-2007/enc.htm#2 |title=Govind Nihalani profile|work=Jang.com.pk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214021016/http://jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2007-weekly/nos-09-12-2007/enc.htm#2 |date=14 December 2007|archive-date=14 December 2007 }}</ref>

It is in the list of 60 films that shaped the Indian film industry spanning six decades.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/six-decades-of-dynamic-filmmaking-in-india/story-gVQkpXKtDBrJfQAhVmXdfP.html|title=Six decades of dynamic filmmaking in India|last=Ganguly|first=Prithwish|date=10 August 2007|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605133525/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/cinema/Six-decades-of-dynamic-filmmaking-in-India/Article1-241665.aspx|archive-date=5 June 2011|url-status=live|agency=[[Indo-Asian News Service|IANS]]}}</ref>

==Plot==
Allegedly based on a true incident reported on page 7 of a local newspaper, the film was a scathing satire on the corruption in the judicial system and the victimization of the underprivileged by the able and the powerful.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/nihalani.html |title=a study of Aakrosh at filmreference |access-date=9 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195304/http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/nihalani.html |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Aakrosh'' forms a part of the series of works, based around explorations in violence, written by noted playwright [[Vijay Tendulkar]], who had earlier written [[Shyam Benegal]]'s ''[[Nishant (film)|Nishant]]'' (1974) and went on to write Govind Nihalani's next surprise breakaway hit, ''[[Ardh Satya]]'' (1983).

Here the victim is shown so traumatized by excessive oppression and violation of his humanity, that he does not utter a single word almost for the length of the film and only bears a stunned look,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freshnews.in/om-puri-444 |title=Om Puri at freshnews|work=Fresh News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020223703/http://www.freshnews.in/om-puri-444 |date=20 October 2007|archive-date=20 October 2007 }}</ref> though later he uses the same violence as a tool to express his own sense of violation and rage.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/09/02/stories/1302017i.htm |title=Ashish Nandy on Violence in Vijay Tendulkar's works|work=Hindu |access-date=10 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405191222/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/09/02/stories/1302017i.htm |archive-date=5 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Basically, the story is of a peasant who is oppressed by landowners and his foremen while trying to eke out a living as a daily laborer. His comely wife, played by [[Smita Patil]], is raped by the foreman who then has him arrested to hide his own crime. His wife commits suicide out of shame.

Soon after his father's death, the police bring him to the funeral grounds in manacles and shackles to complete the last rites of his dead father. Standing beside the burning funeral pyre, he sees the foreman looking at his pre-pubescent sister with lustful eyes. Divining the fate that is in store for her, he grabs an axe and chops off his sister's head to forestall her dire future as a perpetual victim, as he sees it. Upon completion of this hapless act of a desperate and downtrodden man, he raises his face towards the skies and screams, and screams and screams – the second time that we hear his voice in the movie (the first is in a flashback, as he vainly attempts to rescue his wife) — a device similar to [[Andrei Tarkovsky]]'s showing of the icons in brilliant color at the end of his three-hour black-and-white film ''[[Andrei Rublev (film)|Andrei Rublev]]''.

==Cast==
* [[Naseeruddin Shah]] as Bhaskar Kulkarni, Lawyer
* [[Om Puri]] as Lahanya Bhiku
* [[Smita Patil]] as Nagi Bhiku
* [[Amrish Puri]] as Dusane, Public Prosecutor
* [[Mohan Agashe]] as Bhonsle, Chairman, Zilla Parishad
* [[Mahesh Elkunchwar]] as Social worker
* [[Nana Palsikar]] as Bhiku's father
* [[Achyut Potdar]] as More, forest contractor
* [[Deepak Shirke]] as ruffian
* [[Bhagyashree Kotnis]] as Bhiku's sister
* [[Reema Lagoo]] as lavni dancer
* [[Arvind Deshpande]] as Dr Vasant M. Patil

==Similarity with Yagnam==
The aggressive act of Lahanya Biku mirrors the climax of Telugu short story "Yagnam" by Kalipatnam Ramarao.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}} Appalanaidu, a character in ''Yagnam'', cuts the throat of his child with an axe after the verdict delivered by village heads comes against him. In view of the future sorrow of his heirs, now that he will not be there to protect them or provide for them, Appalanaidu commits this act.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}

==Songs==
# "Kanha Re" - Vandana Khandekar - 7.33, Music : [[Ajit Varman]], Lyrics : [[Vasant Deo]]
# "Sanson Mein Dard" - Madhuri Purandare - 5.44, Music : Ajit Varman, Lyrics : Suryabhanu Gupta
# "Tu Aisa Kaisa Mard" - Madhuri Purandare - 3.10, Music : Ajit Varman, Lyrics : Vasant Deo

==Accolades==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
!Year
!Award
!Category
!Nominee(s)
!Result
|-
! [[28th National Film Awards|1980]]
| [[National Film Awards]]
| [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi|Best Feature Film in Hindi]]
| Devi Dutt and [[Govind Nihalani]]
| {{won}}
|-
! rowspan="7"|[[28th Filmfare Awards|1981]]
| rowspan="7"|[[Filmfare Awards]] <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080322/awards |title=Filmfare Awards 1981 - Aakrosh (1980) Awards |publisher=[[Internet Movie Database|IMDb]]}}</ref>
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| Devi Dutt
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Govind Nihalani]]
| rowspan="6"{{won}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Naseeruddin Shah]]
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Om Puri]]
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Story|Best Story]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Vijay Tendulkar]]
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction|Best Art Direction]]
| C.S. Bhatti
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0080322|Aakrosh}}
* [http://parallelcinema.blogspot.com/2005/10/aakroshcry-of-wounded-1980.html An insightful study of the film, Aakrosh]
* [http://roshnai.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/movie-review-aakrosh/ A Movie Review]

{{National Film Award Best Feature Film Hindi}}
{{Govind Nihalani}}

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