Diksha
Circa British Rule in India, a man vows to make his only surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children. He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka, South India, where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya, Udup Pandit. Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya, as well as his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay, who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a few days, and when he returns nothing is the same anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to remove her from the village, they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow.
Year: 1991
Genre: Drama
Studio: National Film Development Corporation of India
Director: Arun Kaul
Cast: Nana Patekar, Manohar Singh, Vijay Kashyap, Anubhav Mishra, Sulabha Arya, K.K. Raina
Crew: Arun Kaul (Director), Mohinderjit Singh (Original Music Composer), Apurba Kishore Bir (Cinematography), Adesh Verma (Editor), U. R. Ananthamurthy (Novel)
Runtime: 120 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1991
IMDb: 5.80/10 by 5 users
Popularity: 0
Country: India
Language: हिन्दी
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : caste system
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