Trishagni (1988) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1988 · 114 mins · Hindi

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Directed by

Nabendu Ghosh

Starring

Pallavi Joshi, Alok Nath, Nana Patekar, Nitish Bharadwaj

The film, winner of the 1988 National Film Award for First Film of a Director, is set in the 1st‑century B.C. Buddhist town of Sariput. A sandstorm leaves two monks and children in the monastery. Twenty years later the monks are aged, the youths fall in love, a monk forces the boy into vows, the girl saves him; they are expelled as sandstorm returns.