Director: Master Vinayak; Writer: Mama Warerkar, R.S. Junnarkar; Cinematographer: V.B. Joshi; Cast: Master Vinayak, Baburao Pendharkar, Bal Dhavale, Shobhana Samarth, Indira Wadkar, Gundopant Walavalkar, Manohar Mainkar
Summary: Master Vinapk's directorial debut was scripted by Warerkar, noted Marathi playwright and film-maker (Poona Raided, 1924). It is a melodrama about tlie rich and callous Vilas (Pendharkar) who abandons girlfriend Shama (Wadkar) when he discovers that she is pregnant. She raises her son Nandu (Mainkar) with the help of her younger brother and the film's hero, Sanjeev (Vinayak). When Vilas re-enters thier lives, it is with a new name, Ishwar, and with the intention of seducing the rich Princess Indira (Samarth) who loves Sanjeev. Ishwar has a bad accident and an attack of amnesia that also leads to a confession of his past deeds. The film, which was also actress Shobhana Samarth's debut, includes an English song
Puff Puff the Engine Said and is apparently the Marathi cinema's first full-length social (two years before
Kunku /
Duniya Na Mane, 1937). The Hindi version contained 12 songs.
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