Director: Bhalji Pendharkar; Writer: Bhalji Pendharkar; Cinematographer: Saju Naik; Cast: Sumati Gupte, Chandrakant Mandhre, Nanasaheb Phatak, Nimbalkar, Jaishankar Danve, Kamalabai, Shanta, Chitnis, Bapurao Pawar
Summary: Famous Marathi historical made originally by Sarpotdar (1927), probably with a story credit for Pendharkar, and remade by Madhav Shinde based on Pendharkar’s script in 1963. A fictional story set in the 17th-C. Maratha empire of Shivaji (Phatak) extolling the greatness of a Maratha past teeming with beautiful maidens and men of valour. Wounded during a tiger hunt, Shivaji’s son Sambhaji (Chandrakant) is looked after by Kamala (Gupte), falls in love and eventually abducts her. When Kamala returns home, her father refuses to accept her and kills himself out of shame. Shivaji has a public trial of his own son and puts him in prison. When Kamala is abducted again, by Yeshwantrao, the man she was supposed to marry, Sambhaji escapes from prison to rescue her but she is killed in the ensuing violence. The musical hit established Chandrakant as a major Marathi star. Pendharkar made a companion work:
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