Hey Ram Tamilyogi

Though it underperformed financially upon its initial theatrical release, Hey Ram has since achieved legendary status among film scholars and cinephiles.

(played by Kamal Haasan), a South Indian archaeologist living in Calcutta during the mid-1940s. His life is shattered when his wife, Aparna, is brutally raped and murdered during the 1946 Direct Action Day riots. This trauma drives Ram into a spiral of religious extremism; he joins a militant group led by Shriram Abhyankar Hey Ram Tamilyogi

as the women in Ram’s life, representing his loss and his attempt at a new beginning. Naseeruddin Shah Hey Ram Tamilyogi