MUMBAI: This film released in the year 1976 and had five lakh producers, soon going to be screened at Cannes Film Festival 2024.

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The Cannes Film Festival 2024, is currently on the way and after three decades an Indian film is competing for the grand prize and recognition on the platform of this prestigious event. But apart from them, one film which was released in theatres 48 years ago is also going to be part of the screening at the festival.

Manthan directed by Shyam Bengal in 1976 was screened at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The screening, which took place in the Bunuel Theatre at Cannes on Friday (May 17) was attended by the lead actors of the film, that is  Naseeruddin Shah, one of the stars of the film, along with his wife Ratna Pathak Shah, FHF President Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, as well as the daughters of Verghese Kurien, the man on whom the film was based. Manthan was a star-studded movie starring Smita and Naseer along with Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, and Mohan Agashe, and was released in 1976. The low-budget film achieved a huge success.  The story of the film revolves around the subject of the dairy revolution in India, it managed to be a success at the box office.

Manthan was India's most famous and crowd-funded film. It was in fact India’s first crowdfunded film.  Not many producers and financiers wanted to contribute to a film due to such a niche subject. In the end, dairy farmers from across India helped and also took ownership of the film. Five lakh farmers contributed Rs 2 towards the film’s budget, raising Rs 10 lakh, a lion’s share of the film’s final production cost of Rs 12 lakh. This way, the farmers’ collectively became the film’s producers.  

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