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Diksha (1991)

ALL 01/01/1991 (hi) Drama 120 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1991
  • Production
    National Film Development Corporation of India
  • Rotten tomato
    58%
  • Original title
    दीक्षा
  • Original language
    hi
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Circa British Rule in India, a man vows to make his only surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children. He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka, South India, where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya, Udup Pandit. Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya, as well as his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay, who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a few days, and when he returns nothing is the same anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to remove her from the village, they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow.

  1. Arun Kaul

    Director

  3. Adesh Verma

    Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Nana Patekar

    Koga Pandit

  2. Manohar Singh

    Udup Pandit

  3. Vijay Kashyap

    Manjunath

  4. Anubhav Mishra

    Ganesh

  5. Sulabha Arya

    Dondamma (Koga's guardian)

  6. K.K. Raina

    Shrikar Upadhyay

  7. Rajshree Sawant

    Yamuna

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 5

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Diksha (1991) 120 Min

ALL 01/01/1991 (hi)
Drama
  • Release 01/01/1991
  • Production
    National Film Development Corporation of India
  • Original title दीक्षा
  • hi
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Circa British Rule in India, a man vows to make his only surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children. He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka, South India, where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya, Udup Pandit. Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya, as well as his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay, who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a few days, and when he returns nothing is the same anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to remove her from the village, they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow.

  1. Arun Kaul

    Director

  2. U. R. Ananthamurthy

    Story

  3. Adesh Verma

    Editor

  4. Producer



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