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Diksha

Circa British Rule in India, a man vows to make his only surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children. He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka, South India, where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya, Udup Pandit. Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya, as well as his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay, who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a few days, and when he returns nothing is the same anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to remove her from the village, they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow.

Circa British Rule in India, a man vows to make his only surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children. He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka, South India, where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya, Udup Pandit. Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya, as well as his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay, who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a few days, and when he returns nothing is the same anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to remove her from the village, they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow.

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... Koga Pandit

... Udup Pandit

... Manjunath

... Ganesh

... Dondamma (Koga's guardian)

... Shrikar Upadhyay

Directors:

Arun Kaul

Genres:

Drama

Release Date:

Jan 01, 1991 (India)

Run Time:

2hr

MMPA Rating:

Original Language:

Hindi

Production Countries:

India

Status:

Released

Plot Keywords:

caste system

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Diksha - Diksha

Directors & Credit Writers

... Director

Cast

... Koga Pandit

... Udup Pandit

... Manjunath

... Ganesh

... Dondamma (Koga's guardian)

... Shrikar Upadhyay

... Yamuna

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