Suddha (film)

Suddha (The Cleansing Rites)
Directed byRamchandra P. N.
Written byRamchandra P. N.
Dialogues:
Narayana Nandalike
Mohan Marnad
Surendra Kumar
Produced bySonk Films
CinematographySameer Mahajan
Edited byRamchandra PN
Release date
  • 2005 (2005)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTulu

Suddha, also called The Cleansing Rites, is an Indian film, the first-ever Tulu language film shot in the digital format. The 105-minute film was shot in 2004 in a village called Marnad near Mangalore, Karnataka, and was released in 2005. The film is an adaptation of the Tulu Sahitya Academy award-winning Tulu play called Bojja written by Mumbai-based playwright, Narayana Nandalike. Suddha was produced by three Mumbai Tuluvas Mohan Marnad, Surendra Kumar and Ramchandra PN. It was directed by Ramchandra PN, a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India, Poona. Suddha was his first feature-length film.