Film

Sant Tulsidas

1939 · 2h 34m

Big-budget miracle-laden saint film on Tulsidas (16th C). who rewrote Valmiki's 'Ramayana' in Hindi. To the despair of his teacher Narahari Guru, who hopes that Tulsidas will make the classic text accessible to the people, the poet spends time with his beloved wife Ratnavali. The dramatic pivot of the story comes when Tulsidas discovers his life's vocation amid howling wind and a river in spate. He becomes an ascetic and settles down in Benares where his translation threatens the brahmanical clergy, until then sole proprietors of the wisdom of the Sanskrit text.

Vishnupant Pagnis

Tulsidas

Leela Chitnis

Ratnavali

Keshavrao Date

Bhatteshwar Shastri

Bandopant Sohoni

Narahari Guru

Vasanti

Ram Marathe

Dixit

Kantilal

• Jayant DesaiDirector
• Shivram VashikarWriter

Release date

January 1, 1939

Status

Released

Original language

Hindi

Runtime

2h 34m