'''Bangarwadi'''


1995 124’ col/scope Marathi
d/co-sc/co-dial Amol Palekar pc NFDCDoordarshan
st/co-sc/co-dial Vyankatesh
Madgulkar based on his novel
co-sc/co-dial Chitra Palekar c Debu Deodhar
m Vanraj Bhatia
lp Chandrakant, Adhishree Atre, Sushma
Deshpande, Chandrakant Kulkarni, Nandu
Madhav, Sunil Ranade, Nagesh Bhosle, Hiralal
Jain, Kishore Kadam, Upendra Limaye


Palekar’s second Marathi film after Aakriet
(1981) revisits the classic Marathi tradition of
rural melodrama associated with the writer
Madgulkar, a genre central to the regionalist
imaginary of post-Independence Maharashtra.
Set in 1939 in the formerly princely state of
Aundh, a young school teacher (Kulkarni) is
posted to the hamlet of Bangarwadi, noted for
its ‘criminal’ tribe of Ramoshis and its perennial
drought problems. The teacher introduces
modernity via a school as well as concepts
such as the values of education and communal
harmony. However the draught strikes and the
villagers leave, but the school teacher stays
behind. Chandrakant Mandhre, the noted
Marathi star, plays the village headman.

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