Brahmachari (1938)
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− | Dialogue Pandit Indra | + | Dialogue: Pandit Indra |
− | Cinematography Pandurang Naik | + | Cinematography: Pandurang Naik |
− | Music Dada Chandekar | + | Music: Dada Chandekar |
− | Lyrics Pandit Indra | + | Lyrics: Pandit Indra |
=The film= | =The film= |
Revision as of 22:28, 15 April 2014
Cast and crew
Director: Master Vinayak
Writer: P.K. Atre
Cast: Master Vinayak, Meenakshi Shirodkar, V.G. Jog, Damuanna Malvankar, Javdekar
Dialogue: Pandit Indra
Cinematography: Pandurang Naik
Music: Dada Chandekar
Lyrics: Pandit Indra
The film
Brahmachari was made in Marathi, with an equally popular Hindi-Urdu version.
Story
In the 1930s many idealistic, young, middle-class Hindu men were attracted to a celibate-muscular version of Hinduism. (The Boy Scouts movement in the west and celibate versions of Islam were also doing the rounds around the same time--for young men from their respective communities.) ' Brahmachari' means 'celibate' and the film's hero Audumbar (Vinayak) has resolved to be celibate. However, saucy, playful Kishori (Meenakshi) leads him away from the straight and narrow, partly by appearing in a swimming costume.
The film, in effect, poked fun at this celibate-muscular version of Hinduism.