Mukta (film)

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Mukta
Directed by Jabbar Patel
Produced byAshok Mhatre
Starring Sonali Kulkarni
Vikram Gokhale
Shreeram Lagoo
Reema Lagoo
CinematographyShankar Bardhan
Music byAnand Modak
Release date
  • 1994 (1994)
CountryIndia
LanguageMarathi

Mukta is a 1994 Marathi film directed by Jabbar Patel. The film stars Shreeram Lagoo, Sonali Kulkarni, Reema Lagoo and Vikram Gokhale in lead roles. Mukta won the 1994 National Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. [1] It is considered one of the important Marathi films for the period 1993–98. [2]

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Plot

Daughter of a Marathi poet settled in United States, Mukta returns to her ancestral home when she gets a post-graduate scholarship to study sociology. She lives with her grandfather, Abasaheb Kanase-Patil, a veteran of Maharashtra's co-operative movement. At the university she joins a street theatre group of Dalit activists and is drawn to the group's leader Milind Wagh, a fearless student leader and poet. Family's unease increases when her friend from America Julian arrives. Julian, however, wins over her grandfather accompanying him to a pilgrimage to Pandharpur. The old man recalling Marathi Saint poets’ struggle against caste inequalities is complemented by Julian singing of songs associated with the struggle against the racial discrimination in US. [3] [4]

Cast

The cast is as follows: [5]

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References

  1. "Mukta won Nargis Dutt Award". Times of India. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. Gokulsing, K. Moti; Dissanayake, Wimal (17 April 2013). Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas. Routledge. ISBN   9781136772849.
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