Diksha

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Nana Patekar

Koga Pandit

Age : N/A | Popularity : 43%

Manohar Singh

Udup Pandit

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Vijay Kashyap

Manjunath

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Anubhav Mishra

Ganesh

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Sulabha Arya

Dondamma (Koga's guardian)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

K.K. Raina

Shrikar Upadhyay

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Rajshree Sawant

Yamuna

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Story	U. R. Ananthamurthy
Editing	Editor	Adesh Verma
Sound	Original Music Composer	Mohinderjit Singh
Crew	Cinematography	Apurba Kishore Bir
Directing	Director	Arun Kaul
Department	Role	Name

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