Sant Dnyaneshwar
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| Original title | संत ज्ञानेश्वर (Sant Dnyaneshwar) |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Marathi |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 126 minutes |
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| Director | Vishnupant Damle , Sheikh Fattelal |
| script | Shivram Vashikar |
| production | Prabhat Film Company |
| music | Keshavrao Bhole |
| camera | V. Avadhoot |
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Sant Dnyaneshwar ( Marathi संत ज्ञानेश्वर Sant Jñāneśvar ) is an Indian saint film by Vishnupant Govind Damle and Sheikh Fattelal from 1940. The biography deals with the Hindu poet Dnyaneshwar (1275–1296).
action
The young Dnyandev begs for alms with religious songs in the village of Alandi , as his father Vitthalpant and his wife Rukminibai and their four children Nivritti, Dnyandev, Sopal and Muktabai have been expelled from the community. After a quarrel with his wife , he became a sannyasin , but, contrary to the religious commandments, returned to her and lived with her again. The family is particularly shunned by the local men, but the girl Nimu - daughter of the influential Brahmin Visoba - has a heart for Dnyandev.
When the humiliations of the family became unbearable, Vitthalpant asks the priest Gangadhar to consult the religious scriptures about a possibility of his religious purification. But there is no solution either in Yajnavalkya or in the Dharmashastras . Vitthalpant inspires his sons Nivritti and Dnyandev with the idea of teaching the Bhagavad Gita in Marathi to the poor and the following night the couple drowned out of resignation.
Nimu tries again to rehabilitate the orphans with the priest Gangadhar. But he can only refer them to the Guru Vidyadhar in Paithan as the next higher religious authority with a letter of reference. Even his scholars find no solution in the scriptures for the case of the four children, except for the advice to praise God Krishna . Dnyandev challenges the scholars by questioning their scriptural decision when it says nothing about the children of an ascetic who has fallen away from the religious rules. The precocious boy's assertion that God rests in every soul and that all souls are one, he is supposed to prove by making a buffalo talk. Dnyandev succeeds in the miracle, the buffalo finishes the mantra he started . The convinced Vidyadhar then confirms the children's purity.
However, the Brahmins of Alandi are not impressed by the letter and refuse to allow the children to return to the community. Nivritti suggests that by preaching the teachings of the Gita, bringing people to them and stop feeling sad. In one village, Dnyandev freed the residents of their superstitions about a water source possessed by ghosts and won their first followers with songs of praise to God.
The scene changes to adult Dyandev's singing with brother Nivritti and sister Muktabai. Visoba wants to marry off his daughter Nimu, but her affection for Dyandev thwarts the plan. Dnyaneshwar is now also venerated as a saint in Alandi, Gangadhar has become his follower. The last seven Brahmins around Visoba resist the mass phenomenon of Dyaneshwar and ask the Sadhu Changdev with his hundreds of thousands of followers to end the corruption of the religion by Dnyaneshwar. There is a dispute between the supporters of both sides, which Dnyaneshwar wants to end through self-sacrifice.
Changdev's curiosity is piqued by the tales of the wonders of Dnyaneshwar. He wants to meet him and rides his tiger to Alandi. Dnyaneshwar and his siblings come flying towards him on a wall. Changdev gives up and becomes a supporter of Dnyaneshwar. Finally Visoba gives up his resistance to Dnyaneshwar. He has fulfilled his mission and is buried alive in Samadhi in Alandi .
background
With Sant Dnyaneshwar , the success of Sant Tukaram (1936) should be repeated with a larger budget and background. The poet Dnyaneshwar was particularly suitable for this undertaking. As the first of the classical Marathi poets venerated as sacred, he wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita , the Dnyaneshwari , in the rhythm of the ovi verse and using everyday language. Even more than Tukaram or Eknath , Dnyaneshwar is associated with performing miracles and his heroics are conveyed in the kirtan form of religious narrative.
Sant Dnyaneshwar was a version of the film in a holder on Marathi and one on Hindi rotated. Raja Nene was assistant director for Damle and Fattelal. The lyrics to the music of Keshavrao Bhole were written by Shantaram Athavale in the Marathi version of the film; in the Hindi version they come from PL Santoshi and Mukhram Sharma 'Ashant' . Vasant Desai is present in the film as an actor and as a playback singer. The film has the nine songs Bagha Mangal Din Aala , Maata Pita Bandhu , Aamhi Daivache Daivache , Ek Tatva Naam , Aala Re Anand Jhala Re , Charan Sharan Deva , Anand Anand Awagha , Sadhu Bodh Jhala and Soniyacha Diwas .
criticism
Mass scenes, elaborate sets and complicated wonder scenes show the spectacular ambitions of the film. Like last Holy-movie directors, Sant Sakhu (1941), these efforts are reflected in an effective mise-en-scène . In frontal shots, the plot develops around a fixed point in the position of the divine, which Dnyaneshwar takes more and more as the film progresses.
literature
- Sant Dnyaneshwar. In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 286 f.
Web links
- Sant Dnyaneshwar in the Internet Movie Database (English)