M. K. Raina

Acting

M. K. Raina

Place of birth

Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

M. K. Raina is one of India's best-known theatre actors and directors. Since 1972, he has been freelance theater and film worker, and works all over India in many languages and with many traditional forms.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 3 titles

1980s · 9 titles

Giddh: The Vulture poster
6.8

In a remote village at Karnataka-Maharashtra border in India, the poor residents follow Devdasi tradition according to which young girls are given up in the service of Goddess Yellamma.

Giddh: The Vulture

1984

New Delhi Times poster
7.3

When a politician is killed, a journalist discovers that a member of parliament had the man assassinated. As his editor digs deeper, the complicity of higher-placed politicians comes to the surface, which leads to riots in one town and an attempt to suppress his story.

New Delhi Times

1986

Genesis poster
6.5

A farmer and a weaver who have both been liberated from enslavement struggle to survive in an arid, desert landscape. To secure basic necessities, they cast their lot with a merchant, who is a man of suspicious intent but provides for them nonetheless. Things change dramatically, however, when their camp is visited by a woman.

Genesis

1986

Blind Alley poster
7.0

Based on Bengali story “Ghar Bari” by Dibyendu Palit, a former revolutionary who has deserted the movement lives in fear of running into old colleagues. Meanwhile he pushes his wife into modelling, and later seamier projects, with tragic consequences.

Blind Alley

1984

Ek Ruka Hua Faisla poster
8.0

Twelve jurors gather in a closed room to deliberate on a murder charge against a young man accused of killing his elderly father. Eleven are convinced of his guilt, while one remains unconvinced. As the others attempt to persuade him to join their unanimous verdict, doubts begin to emerge. A Hindi adaptation of 12 Angry Men.

Ek Ruka Hua Faisla

1986

Tarang poster
6.2

Rahul, the son-in-law of an old industrialist and one of the heirs to his fortune, clashes with Dinesh, the industrialist’s nephew who is openly unscrupulous. Rahul, on his part, conceals his personal ambition under a cloak of liberalism and encourages indigenous production.

Tarang

1984

Satah Se Uthata Aadmi poster
6.0

Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in voice-overs (poetry, essays, and stories), while the characters within the texts walk through real or imaginary landscapes.

Satah Se Uthata Aadmi

1980

Panchvati poster
9.0

This is a story about having an extramarital affair within the family itself.

Panchvati

1986

Portrait of an Average Man poster
7.0

In this rather routine, made-for-television movie by famed Indian director Mrinal Sen, an employee (K.K. Raina) in a large office is suddenly facing unemployment because his bosses have found him guilty of negligence. He is devastated, but he cannot lose his job since he is the only support of his family. Interspersed with the employee's efforts to convince his boss, in several different ways, that he cannot be fired are direct dialogues with the author (Shyamanand Jalan) who created the character of the employee. In these latter conversations, the employee berates his creator for giving him an impossible, no-win situation — he has no control over his fate.

Portrait of an Average Man

1984

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