Diksha (1991)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | hi |
| Popularity | 0.177 |
Directed By
Arun Kaul
Crew
Adesh Verma
Mohinderjit Singh
Arun Kaul
Apurba Kishore Bir
U. R. Ananthamurthy
TOP CAST
Nana Patekar
Koga Pandit
Manohar Singh
Udup Pandit
Vijay Kashyap
Manjunath
Anubhav Mishra
Ganesh
Sulabha Arya
Dondamma (Koga's guardian)
K.K. Raina
Shrikar Upadhyay
Rajshree Sawant
Yamuna
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