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Diksha

Genres

Drama

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.

Details

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Runtime

120 min

Release Date

1991-01-01

Status

Released

Original Language

Hindi

Vote Count

5

Vote Average

5.8

Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.

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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