Director: Ravi Jadhav; Writer: Abhiram Bhadkamkar; Producer: Nitin Desai; Cinematographer: Mahesh Limaye; Editor: Prashant Khedekar; Cast: Anand Abhyankar, Subodh Bhave, Siddharth Chandekar, Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Rahul Deshpande, Vibhawari Deshpande, Shrirang Godbole, Manoj Joshi, Suhas Joshi, Vidyadhar Joshi, Kishore Kadam, Abhijit Kelkar, Manoj Khalatkar, Mandar Kulkarni, Omkar Kulkarni, Prachiti Mhatre, Avinash Narkar, Mukesh Rishi, Rahul Solapurkar
Summary: The film is a biopic on life on Balgandharva showing his struggles through poverty to riches and fame. Narayan Rajhans while in a public performance of his singing at Pune receives his new honour and name "Balgandharva". On advise of Shahu Maharaj, the king of Kolhapur state, he starts his formal training and joins Kirloskar Natak Mandali. Narayan wins claps of his audiences and becomes the key performer of all Sangeet Nataks. To please his insistent mother Narayan marries Laxmi. On the opening day (12 March 1911) of his play Sangeet Manapamaan, his infant daughter dies. But he goes ahead with the performance and enthralls the audience. Due to disputes in the company Narayan decides to start his own company named Gandharva Natak Mandali. Fully devoting himself towards his passion of drama and singing he overlooks his family. Giving audience's satisfaction key priority he starts spending money without any considerations. He loses many of his friends because of such attitude. He blindly believes in Balasaheb Pandit, who keeps his company's accounts. Narayan's carefree nature results in his bankruptcy. Meeting Gohar Bai, who is his fan, he falls in love with her and leaves his wife and family. With his old age, he also loses the charm of holding audiences. When cinema is introduced, theatre fails to grab audiences. Balgandharva also signs contract with V. Shantaram's Prabhat Film Company to act in films. Money in films would also reduce his economic burden. But he never likes the methodologies of film production and abandons it after only one film where he plays the lead role of Sant Eknath. Looking at his poverty many Royalties pay him honorary amounts in order to repay his debts. But he in turn donates this money to other charities.
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