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Siddhartha (1972) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1972 · 83 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Conrad Rooks
- Starring
- Kunal Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Pinchoo Kapoor, Romesh Sharma, Zul Vellani, Simi Garewal
Siddhartha follows a young Brahmin as he embarks on a quest for purpose, traversing rigorous asceticism, indulgent sensuality, material wealth, and deep self‑revulsion before attaining the oneness and harmony he seeks. The film adapts Hermann Hesse’s best‑selling novel by the German Nobel laureate.
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