Kishore Kadam

Kishore Kadam

Born: November 9, 1967
A veteran Indian actor and writer, Kishor Kadam is noted for his works in Marathi and Hindi cinema. The multiple award-winning actor made his debut on the silver screen with the Hindi feature film Antarnaad in 19991, which was directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Shyam Benegal. Continuing his collaboration with Shyam Benegal, he subsequently worked in other parallel films like Mammo (1994) before eventually rising to fame with a stellar performance in Samar (1999), an Urdu feature film. The film won the National Film Award for Best Film in 1999 and Kishor for his outstanding performance in the lead won wide critical appreciation.

Following the huge success of Samar, Kishor starred in films like Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar (2000), Black Friday (2004) and Ek Chalis Ki Last Local (2007), all of which fared well at the box office. Post-2007, Kishor Kadam worked mostly in Marathi films. Some of his popular film credits include Natrang (2010), Balak Palak (2013), Fandry (2014), Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017), which marked his debut in Tamil cinema and Wagherya (2018), a Marathi comedy satire directed by Sameer Asha Patil. His 2019 releases include Chhatrapati Shasan and Adham.

Movies for Kishore Kadam...

Bastar: The Naxal Story
Title: Bastar: The Naxal Story
Character: Rajendra Karma
Released: March 15, 2024
Type: Movie
Based on the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, an army officer leads a mission to eradicate a group of Maoist separatist insurgents responsible for the massacre of a military troop.
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Title: Killer Soup
Character: Satish The Lawyer
Released: January 11, 2024
Type: TV
Swathi dreams of owning a restaurant. But when a murder derails her plan, she and her lover take an outrageous step — to replace him with her husband.
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Territory
Title: Territory
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
A rift between tigers and remote villagers of Maharashtra, India and the rangers' quest to protect all of them.
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Har Har Mahadev
Title: Har Har Mahadev
Released: October 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The young Shivaji Shahaji Bhosale is building the foundation of Hindavi Swarajya. This is the beginning of a memorable journey for the man who will go on to be known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. But to turn this dream of Swarajya into reality, he must unite the Watandars.
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Ghe Double
Title: Ghe Double
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
When two sets of twins, brought up in totally different socioeconomic backgrounds, face each other, the lives of both families intermingle leading to funny chaos in their lives.
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Operation Romeo
Title: Operation Romeo
Character: Kiran
Released: April 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Aditya Sharma and Neha Kasliwal are in a relationship which finds itself challenged one night when they’re out on a date and get harassed in the dead of the night by two men posing as policemen. Will the night change the course of their relationship?
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Jhund
Title: Jhund
Character: College Football Coach
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
A retired sports teacher transforms a bunch of teenage slum goons into disciplined football players against all odds.
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Jayanti
Title: Jayanti
Character: MLA Gondane
Released: November 26, 2021
Type: Movie
Santya is an aggressive young chap, who is a matter of worry and fear for his family. When an Adivasi woman from Santya's neighborhood is raped and murdered by an upper caste man, Santya must make the journey towards becoming an Ambedkarite, in order to emancipate himself and help his community get justice and prosper.
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GodaKaath
Title: GodaKaath
Released: July 23, 2021
Type: Movie
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Black Bud
Title: Black Bud
Character: Police Inspector
Released: June 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Sanya, a rebellious contemporary girl but a poet at heart, escapes her strict orthodox father's house in search of a new life.
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Section 375
Title: Section 375
Character: Justice Madgaonkar
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A filmmaker stands trial when a costume assistant on his movie accuses him of rape
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Dithee
Title: Dithee
Released: September 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Dithee tells the story of a simple ironsmith and his journey of undergoing the pain of his son's death and experiencing the principle of non-duality.
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What makes Albert Pinto angry?
Title: What makes Albert Pinto angry?
Character: Pramod Naik
Released: April 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Albert Pinto goes missing one day and his girlfriend and family start making rounds at the police station to track him down. Unknown to them, he is on his way to Goa to carry out his first assignment as a hitman.
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Chatrapati Shashan
Title: Chatrapati Shashan
Released: March 15, 2019
Type: Movie
If we understand Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj correctly and implement his ideas, principles and vision in ourselves, then we can have much better things in our society.
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Paani
Title: Paani
Released: July 27, 2018
Type: Movie
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Nude: Chitraa
Title: Nude: Chitraa
Released: April 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Yamuna along with her son Laxman locates in Mumbai leaving behind her abusive husband. She takes shelter in the house of her aunt Chandra whom she calls Akka. Yamuna's only aim is to give better education to her son. Chandra finds her a job as a sweeper in an art school. Yamuna finds that Chandra poses as a nude model to the students of the school. Chandra confines Yamuna to take up the job of being nude out there the students don't look at you in lust but as a project.
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Gavthi
Title: Gavthi
Released: March 30, 2018
Type: Movie
About a young village boy Gajanan - his rags to riches story and all the struggles he lives through. Success came with enormous sacrifices for Gajanan, who gave up everything, including his childhood love, to make it big in the city.
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Zindagi Virat
Title: Zindagi Virat
Released: September 29, 2017
Type: Movie
A family entertainer, Zindagi Virat is based on the relationship shared between a father and son and features some of Marathi cinema's finest actors such as Kishore Kadam, Atul Parchure, Bhau Kadam and Usha Naik playing important roles.
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Pimpal
Title: Pimpal
Released: May 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Arvind, a retired widower, has been living alone in his apartment in Pune. He follows a set routine that includes video chatting with his children and grandchildren in America. One day, Arvind has a fall in the bathroom. He’s fine but his children are adamant that he has to move to the US. With a heavy heart, Arvind agrees. As he is packing his belongings, he comes across an old letter that his mother had written to him. He had made a p
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Appa
Released: October 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Indian biographical film based on the life of social activist, Kisan Baburao "Anna" Hazare.
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Kaasav: Turtle
Title: Kaasav: Turtle
Character: Yadu
Released: October 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Janaki, a divorcee trying to find meaning of life in a sea-turtle conservation project run by the conservationist Dattabhau in a coastal village, accidentally meets an young man. Janaki, with her empathy for the young man, Manav, tries to create a non-judgmental, non-intrusive, warm atmosphere to help him bloom. Janaki herself, her driver-assistant Yadu, conservationist Dattabhau, servant Bablya and street-kid Parshu - none of them not related to each other - become the vulnerable young Manav's support system.
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Chiranjeev
Title: Chiranjeev
Released: February 12, 2016
Type: Movie
After a chained Ganya Kaka, suspected of having a curse, commits suicide, a tension arises in the family as to who will be the next person the curse will be passed on to.
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Ganvesh
Title: Ganvesh
Released: November 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A father of 10 year old boy is struggling to buy new school uniform for his son. Son is selected for to deliver a speech before State minister on the occasion of countries independence day. With the struggle of father, story shows the struggle of common peoples of country in the light of social, economical and political influences.
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Highway
Title: Highway
Released: August 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Highway is a film of that escape which all of us yearn for. It is an attempt to see our own reflections in today’s time.
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Nilkanth Master
Title: Nilkanth Master
Character: Raosaheb
Released: August 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Nilkanth Master is based in the pre-independence era in Maharashtra. Vishwanath (Omkar Govardhan) joins a revolutionary group after earning the trust of the leader, Vyenkatesh (Adinath Kothare). But during the first secret operation after his joining, Vyenkatesh gets killed while fighting the British and their mission fails. Indu (Pooja Sawant) is Vishwanath's childhood love.To hide from the eyes of the British, Vishwanath is made to stay with the senior-most member of the group (Vikram Gokhale). He is given a pseudo identity of the school teacher, Nilkanth. Hence, he is now called Nilkanth Master. His first task is to break the news of Vyenkatesh's death to his lover, Yashoda (Neha Mahajan).
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Janiva
Title: Janiva
Released: July 31, 2015
Type: Movie
It is a contemporary story of a teenager who portrays an image of a protagonist is progressive-thinking, creative, tech-savvy, yet socially responsible. He upholds age-old values like honesty, integrity and uprightness. There is thrill and adventure which is inbuilt in the film and then there happens an injustice towards a victim on a social networking platform and the teenager's life takes an intriguing turn.
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Anvatt
Title: Anvatt
Released: August 1, 2014
Type: Movie
It is a story about Vinay (Adinath Kothare) and Madhura (Urmila Kanetkar) decide to spend a year in a remote village as per Vinay's late grandfather's wish. As days pass by, the couple encounters strange experiences.
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Postcard
Title: Postcard
Character: James Kamble
Released: July 1, 2014
Type: Movie
The film is about a postman, whose wife has a habit of reading the letters of people. A postman's job is to deliver letters, and initially he never gets involved with the content of the letters. But when his wife comes across a letter and shares the content with her husband, since then the postman also unknowingly gets attached to the recipients and their emotions. The content of the letters make him restless, and somewhere he starts feeling guilty, thinking whether he should help these people. And what comes ahead is a masterpiece journey of his life.
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Salaam
Title: Salaam
Character: School Principal
Released: June 2, 2014
Type: Movie
In a picturesque village in Maharashtra lives Raghunath aka Raghya (Vivek Chabukswar), studying in seventh standard. His father (Girish Kulkarni) works with Mumbai police as a constable; he visits his family in between. Shankar aka Sada (Abhishek Bharate) is Raghya’s classmate and close friend. His father is an officer with the Indian Army. Sada believes his father’s profession is more prestigious than Raghya’s father while Raghya feels vice-versa. Once, their school teacher (Kishore Kadam) hands over a voluntary task of collecting funds for a noble cause to the students. This exercise becomes the turning point in the friendship of Raghya and Sada.
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Siddhant
Title: Siddhant
Released: May 8, 2014
Type: Movie
If you cannot nurture honesty in your own home, you have no moral or ethical right to preach such values to society. Appa Thosar, a renowned mathematics teacher in the Konkan embodied this principle all his life. He is extremely fond of his grandson Vakratund who is a topper in Maths. Coincidentally, Appa comes across a nerve-shattering truth Vakratund has been successful through unfair means. Siddhant a sensitive story about moral courage and emotional turmoil.
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Gandhi of the Month
Title: Gandhi of the Month
Character: Daniels
Released: January 13, 2014
Type: Movie
A secular expatriate American schoolmaster in India struggles to protect his students from fundamentalists.
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Fandry
Title: Fandry
Character: Kachru 'Nana' Mane
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Set in contemporary times, Fandry ('Pig') tells the story of teenager Jabya and his family, who are Dalits. While Jabya is struggling in his love life, having fallen for Shalu, a rich upper caste girl in his class, his family is on the lookout for a way to hunt down a wild pig to earn some money.
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Anumati
Title: Anumati
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Ratnakar, an old man, is devastated when he discovers that his wife is ill. He helplessly goes through a series of trials and tribulations in order to save his dying wife.
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Touring Talkies
Title: Touring Talkies
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: Movie
The movie is based on the concept of roaming cinema which was one of the oldest traditions in the bygone era of Indian cinema where the movies were showcased in tents for the local folks also knows as Touring talkies. For the past few decades these films have made a common recurring occurrences in most of the Carnival Fun fair taking place across villages where the Marathi Cinema is adored in a completely distinctive fashion.
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What's Your Religion?
Title: What's Your Religion?
Character: Father
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
"Kawdu and Bhulabai are a tribal couple living in a tiger reserve somewhere in Maharashtra. Their idyllic life gets a rude shock after Kawdu (Upendra Limaye), who had gone into the forest to fetch a medicinal root for his ailing baby, is arrested on charges of having killed a tiger. Desperate to save the life of her baby, Bhulabai (Vibhawari Deshpande) rushes to a Christian missionary, and showered with care and concern, embraces Christianity under the belief that this new god has different powers from her “own” gods, and will solve her problems. However, freeing her husband from jail is another affair, and for this she is advised to seek the help of Naxalites living in the nearby forest, through whom she acquires a new deity—Karl Marx. Even as these new gods find their place on her altar beside Waghdeo and Naagdeo, the traditional nature deities of her community, the community itself shuts the family out for having dropped its own gods." - Aparna Pallavi
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Special 26
Title: Special 26
Character: Iqbal
Released: February 7, 2013
Type: Movie
In the early 1980s in India, a group of con artists rob well-known businessmen and politicians by posing as officers of the Central Bureau of Intelligence or income tax officials. The gang stages fake raids during which they steal great amounts of money from their targets.
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Balak Palak
Title: Balak Palak
Character: Kadam Uncle
Released: January 4, 2013
Type: Movie
BP is about four teenage friends (Avya, Bhagya, Chiu and Dolly), who over hear that, a friend, a resident of their colony, Jyoti tai, has left their colony, as she has brought disgrace to her family. Having received unsatisfactory explanations from their parents for Jyoti tai's exit. It becomes imperative to find out what exactly was her disgraceful act. Kids decide to take up this challenge. In this journey to discover, they end-up bonding little too much with their over mature school-mate 'Vishu', the guiding star for the foursome. He enlightens them by throwing his divine light upon blue films. He feels, one has to read, watch, and if need be, perform to understand the true meaning of life (read SEX).
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Ha Bharat Maza
Title: Ha Bharat Maza
Released: May 5, 2012
Type: Movie
When Sukhatme's youngest son narrowly fails his entrance exams, the family are presented with a financial and moral conundrum.
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Deool
Title: Deool
Character: Mahasangram
Released: November 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Keshya, a simple villager believes that god has arrived in his village but everyone disbelieves him. Later when the politics plays its part things take a drastic change
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Pangira
Title: Pangira
Released: May 20, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of ‘Pangira’ is all about how rapidly Indian villages have changed, over a period of time. Old rural hospitality and contented, peaceful village life – is now a History! Right from natural resources to local politics – ‘Indian village’ has changed and IS still changing from every aspect. Miss-use …of drinking and farming water, un-imaginable destruction of natural resources by cutting down trees in and around villages is normal. Development is happening, but with ‘Jilha Parishads’ and ‘Panchayat Samitees’, politics and courruption has become integral part of the system. At the end, a farmer, a common man, still does not get the price he deserves for his hard work.
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Balgandharva
Title: Balgandharva
Character: Ganapatrao Bodas
Released: May 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Balgandharva, the eminent towering singer from the bygone golden era of Marathi "sangeet natak" (musical dramas) definitely deserved some modern celluloid space. This film does well to document his life, the younger generation who is unaware of his charisma will get to know him. The film chronicles his life , his acting career well. It gives a good overview of how the drama companies were run and how he influenced the running. His values and character stand out amidst all the tragedies in his life.
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Natrang
Title: Natrang
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to play a 'nachya', an effeminate, homosexual man. He goes ahead with the decision, which forever changes him and his family, as he ends up torn between his artistic passion and his societal prestige.
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Ek Cup Chya
Title: Ek Cup Chya
Released: December 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A bus conductor from India and his family struggle to deal with a ridiculously large electricity bill they have been sent by mistake.
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Jogwa - The Awakening
Title: Jogwa - The Awakening
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Suli's life takes a turn after she is forcefully made to serve the local deity because of an ancient tradition. When she meets Tayappa, who shares a similar fate, they find comfort in one another.
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Parallel Folds
Title: Parallel Folds
Character: Dr. Nikumbh
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A prosperous but lonely businessman has suicidal thoughts as his 60th birthday approaches. Then, he runs into his college sweetheart. Her mesmerizing beauty, poise and silence suddenly personify his vacuum of last 30 years. He was oblivious to his soul mate's shocking yesteryear's. Shama had chosen to be a recluse - hidden from the light of sunrise. Her life hasn't turned out the way she'd hoped, either. Can the couple find hope and rekindle their love?
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Phoonk
Title: Phoonk
Character: Devappa (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 2008
Type: Movie
A realtor fires one of his co-workers and out of spite, the co-worker and his wife does black magic on his daughter. Being an atheist, he shuns his mother and wife's theories on the supernatural and relies on a doctor for his daughter's treatment.
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Contract
Title: Contract
Character: Dara
Released: July 18, 2008
Type: Movie
After witnessing the brutal death of his family, an embittered ex-army officer agrees to infiltrate a gang of terrorists.
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Ek Chalis Ki Last Local
Title: Ek Chalis Ki Last Local
Character: Bhujang
Released: May 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Comic thriller about two people who miss the last local train and how missing the train changes the course of their lives forever.
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Black Friday
Title: Black Friday
Character: Dangle
Released: August 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Bombs tear through Bombay, wreaking havoc and polarising the citizens. With perpetrators at large, the state launches a massive drive to unmask the truth behind these events.
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Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!
Title: Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!
Character: Bhaskar Shetty
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Takes a slightly different look at various layers of life in a city like Mumbai through the eyes of Ram Saran (Manoj Bajpai), a garage mechanic who hails from a small town. The film is also about his interaction with the different layers of society that is prevalent in the city.
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Samar
Title: Samar
Released: February 27, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small village in Madhya Pradesh, two different communities fight over a water pump installation. When a member of one of the communities, Nathu (Kishore Kadam) decides to protest against a decision he feels is unjust, he angers the local land owner, who decides to impose economic sanctions on the community in an effort to starve them out of the village. When Nathu's house is burned down in mysterious circumstances, Nathu seeks the comfort of a temple, and prays for a solution. Instead he finds himself abused and beaten by the land owner for breaking a rule that bans members of Nathu's community from entering the temple. It later emerges that the situation in the area is being used as a plot for a film made in Bombay, however characters featured in the film are misrepresented, which leads to tension on the set and eventually violence spills.
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...Jayate
Title: ...Jayate
Character: Kulkarni 'Kulki'
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Stuck with getting affidavits stamped and signed, alcoholic Advocate Mohan Agashe accepts a case of medical malpractice against two gynecologists affiliated with Sanjivani Hospital whose alleged negligence put a young widow and mother of one child, Aarti Mehta, in a state of acute coma. The hospital is willing to make a settlement, but Mohan refuses and decides to try his luck in court. He soon finds out about the greed of patients' relatives, which forces him to accommodate Aarti's married sister Pooja and her son in his already-cramped flat; the lack of evidence and his very own credibility; a hostile judge among other challenges that threaten to not only drive him to despair but also turn his life upside-down.
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Sanshodhan
Title: Sanshodhan
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The amendment in the law, making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourably by the ruling Sarpanch of the village, Thakur Ratan Singh. Although he puts up a front of being in favour of the idea, along with his son Inder Singh, he conspires to field wives of friends, whom he hopes he can control through their husbands and through the caste network. Vidya, wife of Bhanwar Singh who is indebted to the Thakur, is one of the newly elected women Panchayat members. Vidya, who is educated, notices that the political empowerment of women is only on paper and in reality decision-making still continues to be with the manipulative old guard. Vidya decides it is time for a change.
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Katha Doan Ganpatraonchi
Title: Katha Doan Ganpatraonchi
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Located in a seaside village in Maharashtra during the 60s, the film unfolds over two decades. It is a tragic tale of how the best of friendships can rupture over a trivial quarrel. Once a rupture takes place, there are always people who know how to turn a quarrel to their own advantage, even if the main adversaries are completely destroyed in the process.
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Limited Humanity
Title: Limited Humanity
Character: Prakash
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Sadanand Borse lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with his pregnant wife, Urmila, in a small town in India. While returning home from work on his motorbike, he accidentally knocks down a deceased child in a funeral procession. From thence on, Sadanand Borse and Urmila will experience terror and fear as they will soon be stalked by two goons, Srirang and Govind, who want to avenge the deceased child's humiliation.
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Mammo
Title: Mammo
Character: Agent Raju
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Mammo is an account of a certain period in the life of Riyaz, a teenager who lives with his grandmother Fayyazi as they get a visit from his grandma’s sister Mehmooda Begum Anwar Ali, commonly known as ‘Mammo’.
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Karmavirayan
Title: Karmavirayan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A biopic on Padmabhushan Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil who empowered the peasants with plow in one hand and pen in the other. A school dropout who pioneered rural education became the founder of Rayat Education Society and developed the 'Earn and Learn' ideology.