Remembering writer and critic UR Ananthamurthy on his birth anniversary

The novel Samskara remains the most widely discussed work of UR Ananthamurthy, one of independent India’s major literary figures and among the pioneers of the Navya movement in Kannada literature.

It was turned into a film that won the national award ahead of Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi and ushered in the new wave cinema movement in Kannada.

A look at the novel and film on UR Ananthmurthy’s 90th birth anniversary.