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Vijay Tendulkar

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Manthan
7.1

A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.

Manthan

1976
Ardh Satya
6.9

A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.

Ardh Satya

1983
Sardar
6.5

Sardar is a 1993 Indian biopic on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India's greatest freedom fighters, directed by Ketan Mehta and written by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar.

Sardar

1993
Nishant
7.1

A man whose wife is abducted seeks to have the culprits prosecuted for their crime, but no one will help him. Meanwhile, the wife—abused and berated by her abductors—cannot bring herself to face her husband.

Nishant

1975
Silence! The Court Is in Session
9.2

A political and social satire on middle-class society's hypocrisy. A group of teachers plan to stage a play in a village. When a cast-member does not show up, a local stagehand is asked to replace him. An improvised, free-flowing 'rehearsal' is arranged and a mock trial is staged to help the novice understand court procedures. A (mock) charge of infanticide is levelled against Miss Benare, another cast-member. Suddenly the pretend-play turns into an accusatory game when it emerges from the trial that Miss Benare is carrying an out-of-wedlock child from her failed illicit relationship with Professor Damle, the missing cast-member.

Silence! The Court Is in Session

1971
Gehrayee
7.1

When a successful manager decides to sell his plantation in his ancestral village to another company, his young daughter begins acting strangely.

Gehrayee

1980
Aakrosh
7.3

In the 1980s, a lawyer defends a tribal man who is under arrest for killing his own wife. As he proceeds with the case, he learns about the harsh life of scheduled tribes in India.

Aakrosh

1980
Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan
5.0

Arvind, a rich businessman's son, dates the office secretary but is engaged to marry someone else. With a complicated family background, he struggles to find meaning in his life.

Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan

1978
Kamla
10.0

An ambitious journalist buys a girl from a village in rural India to expose the existence of flesh trade and embarrass the political elite.

Kamla

1984
Aghaat
8.1

Madhav Verma is an honest and straight-forward union representative at Shivalik Engineering Works. His position and effectiveness is challenged when Chhotelal is injured. Krishnan Raju is the rival union leader whose methods are completely opposite to Madhav's ideals. The two unions clash on the Chhotelal's compensation issue. The climax shows Madhav Verma using the same exact tactics of his rival against them.

Aghaat

1985
22 June 1897
8.0

Due to a plague epidemic in Pune, the British Government deputes C.W. Rand as Chairman of the Special Plague Committee, empowering him to do whatever is necessary to control the menace. Rand's heavy handed measures deeply offend local sensibilities, driving a group of angry youngsters to assassinate him and Lt. Charles Ayerst- the first outbreak of revolutionary activities in British India.

22 June 1897

1979
Umbartha
6.9

After her husband’s death, Mrs. Mahajan runs a prosperous household with her two sons, while her daughter-in-law Sulabha grows increasingly restless in her domestic role. When she accepts a job as a Superintendent of a distant women’s reformatory against her family’s wishes, she sets out to seek her independence and pursue a career in social service.

Umbartha

1982
Bioscope
7.7

Bioscope is an anthology film having 4 short films inspired from 4 poems.

Bioscope

2015
Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai
8.0

A mock trial during the rehearsal of a play quickly turns into a gripping drama about desire, gender issues, power and control, this is an adaptation of playwright Vijay Tendulkar's Shantata. Court Chalu Aahe (1963).

Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai

2017
Ghashiram Kotwal
6.8

A stylized version of Vijay Tendulkar’s radical Marathi play chronicling the Peshwa regime in western India, a collective effort of direction and cinematography made by an independent group of young filmmakers.

Ghashiram Kotwal

1976
Sinhasan
7.0

As a heated race for the post of chief minister erupts between the incumbent and a challenger from his own party, political passions play out behind the scenes as seen through a journalist's eyes in this landmark drama. Directed by Jabbar Patel and inspired by Arun Sadhu's novels Mumbai Dinank and Simhasan, the film -- one of India's earliest political pictures -- stars Arun Sarnaik, Shriram Lagoo and Nilu Phule.

Sinhasan

1979
Samna
6.8

Wealthy and influential Hindurao Dhonde Patil finds a homeless drunk, brings him home, looks after him, feeds him, finds a room for him, gets him employed, calls him Master, and even finds a woman to look after him. In return, this male steals from Hindurao, is apprehended by the local police, but Hindurao pays for his bail. Hindurao is forced to make a final decision about him after he finds out that Master has been inquiring about a missing army officer named Maruti Kamble.

Samna

1975
No image
9.0

The story of a poverty-stricken family, one of the countless fringe dwellers in India's slums. A man tries to earn some money by selling aborted fetuses to medical institutes.

Spandan

1982
Pahije Jatiche
N/A

An epic tale of a young, aimless man discovering reason and purpose via the connection he forges with his community after being hired as a tutor at a nearby tuition centre.

Pahije Jatiche

2023
Before the Third Bell Goes
N/A

The third bell goes, the curtain rolls up and the play has begun. Before this could happen, there is the complicated effort by the group to make the play a reality. The film is a reconstruction of the genesis of a play put up by amateur artists of the Progressive Dramatic Association, Pune. It shows the herculean effort which goes into the making of an amateur theatrical production.

Before the Third Bell Goes