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Ramshashtri

Ramshashtri

Original Name: Ramshashtri
English Name: Ramshashtri
Year: 1944
Run Time: 122’
Language: Marathi
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Black & White
Country: India
Director: Vishram Bedekar, Gajanan Jagirdar, Raja Nene
Producer: Vishnupant Damle, Fattelal Shaikh
Cast: Gajanan Jagirdar, Lalita Pawar, Baby Shakuntala, Hansa Wadkar, Master Vithal, Anant Marathe
Screenplay: V.S. Sukhtankar, Vishram Bedekar, Shivaram Washikar, QamarJalalabadi
Cinematographer: Pandurang Naik, E. Mohammed
Editor: A.R. Sheikh
Sound Designer: S. Damle, S. Kulkarni
Music Composer: Keshavrao Bhole, G. Damle
Production Designer: S. Fattelal, B.D. Thatte
Production Company: Prabhat Films

Selected Filmography:

  • 1944 Ramshastri

Director’s Biography:

Vishram Bedekar, Gajanan Jagirdar, and Raja Nene were pillars of Prabhat Film Company in its early days. Bedekar, and Nene were regular writers and Directors, while Jagirdar was a famous actor and Director. This film marks one of the rare collaboration of all three stalwarts.

Synopsis:

The film is a biographical account of Ramshastri Prabhune, chief justice at the court of Madhavrao Peshwa, and a major figure in the development of an indigenous legal code. It follows the death of the Peshwa Madhavrao in 1772 when Raghoba seized power by killing Narayanrao, the official heir and his own nephew. The idealised figure of Ramshastri is presented as truth incarnate. Struggling for an education, he eventually becomes the popular chief justice at Madhavrao's court and is the only influential figure in the realm willing to stand up to Raghoba and to denounce his usurpation of the throne.