Balgandharva Movie

Sunday was the superb day for me as me and my brother watched movie 'Balgandharva'.

Balgandharva is based on classical music singer Narayan Shripad Rajhans. He was also an actor in marathi plays which were very popular during late 80's and mid 90's. Narayan as a child sung in front of Lokmaya Tilak the then freedom fighter and hearing to Narayan's song one day he bestowed him with new name "Balgandharva". Gandharva means the singer who sings in the 'darbar' of Indra - The King of Gods.

Narayan was so beautiful that he used to perform the roll of lady actresses in the plays since at those times women were not allowed to act in plays. Even they were prohibited to come out of the house. Balgandharva used to perform the lady characters in the plays.

In this feature film, Subodh Bhave has played the lead role of Balgandharva and he has done it so well that he deserves a national award. The other actors include Vibhavari Deshpande, Suhas Joshi, Kishore Kadam, Avinash Narkar, Manoj Joshi, Abhijit Kelkar. These actors have also given their best.

This is a superb feature film and each and every important incident in Balgandharva's life has been pin-pointed so nicely and accurately that when the movie ends we need to tell our mind that we are in 21st Century. The sets crafted by Nitin Chandrakant Desai's team are too good. Especially , the set of Mayasabha.

Thanks Nitin Desai and Subodh Bhave as well as the whole team for giving us such a good film.
Hats off to all of you.....

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