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|September 18, 2025
Actor-director Vipin Kumar's Mahabhoj, adapted from Hindi writer Mannu Bhandari's novel, is an exploration of the '70s Belchi massacre against Dalits in India. A conversation with the director.
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IT was 11 am in Bihar's Belchi village when a group of 60-70 people, under the leadership of Mahavir Mahato, a landlord from the Kurmi caste, surrounded the houses of the Dalits and other backward castes. Eleven Dalits were tied, shot and burnt, and their properties destroyed; the perpetrators reportedly had a feast near the flames as the victims perished. The incident made nationwide headlines, and also marked the return of Indira Gandhi to active politics after the selfimposed six-month exile following the crushing defeat of the Congress in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections.
Nearly five decades later, a play, Mahabhoj, recalled the incident through a recent performance in Delhi's LTG Auditorium.
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