Samskara Character Analysis

Brahmin and never abided by the laws of caste system. He mingled with the people of lower castes and even had immoral relations with a woman of a lower caste. He consumed alcohol and meat which was prohibited by their religion. In short, he was a wealthy man who defied all laws and lived by his own rules. His stinking corpse was inflicted by viruses of plague and if it would not be instantly cremated it would mean an epidemic of deadly disease.
Moreover it is also a story of the head of all the Brahmin community. Praneshacharya who is a devout man. He faces the dilemma of who could cremate the body and how it would be done. The way his character transforms and evolves as the story progresses is worth a read. It is an open ended novel and there are too many plots, incidents, characters that can be decoded and analysed according to one 's own wish.
Samskara, was first published in 1965. It was U.R.

Director, the late Pattabhirama Reddy, had Girish Karnad in the lead role and, fantastically, in the opposing character, cast the late P Lankesh. The late Snehalata Reddy, Pattabhi 's wife, played the female lead. The remaining cast included now veteran Lokanath, BR Jayaram (who won an award for his role), CR Simha, the late Shivanand, Bhargavi Narayan, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, the late Kankanhalli Gopi and UK Jayadev. Pandit Rajiv Taranath provided background music. Art direction was by SG Vasudev. Cinematography was by Australian Tom Cowan and the film was edited by Stevan Cartaw of UK. The team was a brilliance personified and it was still 1970s, and in India nobody could even imagine of banning such a project. The film even won a Gold Medal at the National Film Awards in 1970. It also went on to win major critical acclaim at major international film festivals. But to India, this was the proclamation of Navya Kannada Sahitya movement (Kannada New