Director: Debaki Bose; Writer: Debaki Bose, Hiren Bose, Basanta Chatterjee; Cinematographer: Nitin Bose; Cast: Pahadi Sanyal, Molina Devi, Prithviraj Kapoor, Durga Khote, K.L. Saigal, Ansari
Summary: Big-budget saint film on the life of Meera
(Chandrabati Devi/Khote), a princess of the
Rajput kingdom of Chittor married to the king
of Mewad (Bannejee/Kapoor). She is
persecuted by her husband and her brother-in-
iaw when she abandons worldly possessions to
become a devotee of Krishna. She undertakes a
journey of penance and performs a miracle
which the king attributes to the machinations
of the evil army chief Abhiram. After being
imprisoned, vilified and accused of infidelity,
she dies and is united with her god. The film
launches Chandrabati Devi (1903-92) as a
major Bengali star, while Khote, already
established at Prabhat, went to Calcutta to do
the Hindi version (cf. Meera, 1945).
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