Chomana Dudi (Kannada: ಚೋಮನ ದುಡಿ, Choma's Drum) is a 1975 Indian Kannada-language drama film directed by B. V. Karanth and starring M. V. Vasudeva Rao and Padma Kumta.
[2] Choma is an untouchable bonded-labourer in a village who is working along with his family for a landlord, as he belongs to a backward class.
He comes in contact of Christian missionaries who try to convert him giving him the lure of the land, but Choma does not want to let go of his faith.
[4] His daughter, Belli works in the plantation and falls for the charm of Manvela, the estate-owner's writer.
In the climax, Choma shuts himself in his house and starts playing the drum till he dies.