As the young boy speaks of Vithoba as a friend, his mother worries about inviting the wrath of Vithoba. To begin with, for us to compare this film to the 1936 classic that we worship, will be downright unfair.Īs his friends hunt for him, young Tukaram is found hugging Vithoba in the family’s ancestral temple.

And in the new millennium, though internet has changed the way we think, live and find knowledge, Tukoba is back.Ĭhandrakant Kulkarni takes on the daunting task of bringing Tukaram Bolhoba Ambile’s journey into becoming Sant Tukaram. The 1936 film Sant Tukaram was popular not just as a film but also for the thought it stood for, even three centuries after Tukoba wrote the Gaatha. As the era changed, the vehicle to carry the message to the masses changed, people changed and yet, Dnyaneshwar, Tukaram and Eknath Maharaj’s (among many others, of course) messages remained relevant. The saints used a popular form of communication then – abhanga (poetry) and kirtan – to serve this purpose. Sant Paramparaa arose out of the need to spread knowledge, a new thought across the masses. Anyone who grew up in the DD era, is most likely to have seen both the films multiple times. Vishnupant Damle made biopoics on both Sant Dnyaneshwar and Sant Tukaram.

The ‘ sant parampara’ (saints’ legacy) also left Marathi cinema enriched. Cast: Jitendra Joshi, Pratiksha Lonkar, Veena Jamkar, Radhika Apte, Yatin Karyekar, Smita Tambe, Vikas Patil, Sharad PonksheĪrmed with poetry, they enriched the culture, thought and intellect of Maharashtra.

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