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Sound of Heaven: The Story of Balgandharva

  • 2011
  • 2h 4m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
520
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Sound of Heaven: The Story of Balgandharva (2011)
Drama

Stort tells Narayan shripad Rajhans aka Balgandharva struggle through poverty and riches.Stort tells Narayan shripad Rajhans aka Balgandharva struggle through poverty and riches.Stort tells Narayan shripad Rajhans aka Balgandharva struggle through poverty and riches.

  • Director
    • Ravi Jadhav
  • Writer
    • Abhiram Bhadkamkar
  • Stars
    • Subodh Bhave
    • Anand Abhyankar
    • Siddharth Chandekar
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    • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    520
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ravi Jadhav
    • Writer
      • Abhiram Bhadkamkar
    • Stars
      • Subodh Bhave
      • Anand Abhyankar
      • Siddharth Chandekar
    • 5User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Subodh Bhave
    Subodh Bhave
    • Balgandharva
    Anand Abhyankar
    Anand Abhyankar
    • Mama
    Siddharth Chandekar
    Siddharth Chandekar
    • Abhyankar
    Nitin Chandrakant Desai
    Nitin Chandrakant Desai
    • Lokmanya Tilak
    Rahul Deshpande
    Rahul Deshpande
    • Keshavrao Bhosale
    Vibhawari Deshpande
    Vibhawari Deshpande
    • Laxmi
    Shrirang Godbole
    Shrirang Godbole
    • G.B. Deval
    Manoj Joshi
    Manoj Joshi
    • Seth Laxmichand Narayan
    Suhas Joshi
    Suhas Joshi
    • Narayan's mother
    Vidyadhar Joshi
    Vidyadhar Joshi
    • Shankarrao
    Kishore Kadam
    Kishore Kadam
    • Ganpatrao Bodas
    Atharva Karve
    • Young Narayan
    Abhijit Kelkar
    Abhijit Kelkar
    • Sadubhau Ranade
    Manoj Kolhatkar
    • Ram Ganesh Gadkari
    Mandar Kulkarni
    • Photographer
    Omkar Kulkarni
    • V. Shantaram
    Prachiti Mhatre
    • Johar Begum
    Avinash Narkar
    Avinash Narkar
    • Balasaheb Pandit
    • Director
      • Ravi Jadhav
    • Writer
      • Abhiram Bhadkamkar
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    • Trivia
      Breakthrough role of subhodh bhave deserve an national award for this role..
    • Soundtracks
      Pariyeva Ke Payal Sajani
      Performed by Aarya Ambekar
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    User reviews5

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    4/10

    Good production values, overrated in everything else

    • Production values are top notch. Everything is done well, the costumes and sets are superb.


    • Bhave acts like his part was a Sant in an old B&W marathi movie (think Arun Govil in Ramayan for a later reference). Gives the movie an unnecessarily saintly and holier than thou touch.


    • Direction is totally subpar. There is no narrative. People appear and are told to us as having done things and having meaning to the story, but they were never introduced. Who was it that left in a huff when Balgandharva decides to collaborate with Keshavrao? Multiple people die during the course of the movie, but the same scene plays out to establish all deaths (Bhave is doing natak practice, people's faces are shown fallen, Bhave says what happened, news of death is broken). I mean come on. The language is highfalutin. Who the hell says "Rasikaprekshanna" in conversation? The scenes of overspending and debt are repeated over and over again. The tone of the movie is "life of a saint" when it should have been "life of a *human* artiste" (indeed the story plays out as the latter, so the tone is just very odd).


    • The worst thing is Balgandharva was above all a singer, and singing is given short shrift in the movie. Natyasangeet is an excellent art form, and I give kudos to the movie for making it popular again, but honestly, they have not done a good job of showing it. They have over-ornamented the orchestra, and undercut the sangeet itself. (Rahul Deshpande's Ravi mi, at only two and a half minutes, is the best song in the movie, and is not sung by "Balgandharva").


    • Same thing about the sangeet nataks themselves. There is very little in terms of their story or impact (and no, showing people yelling at shopkeepers for not carrying the saree from the natak is not impact, it's gimmickry).


    • Overall this is the kind of movie that wins national awards in India and tugs at people's heartstrings, and is made with good intentions, but as a disinterested viewer, the outcome falls quite short.
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    • Release date
      • May 6, 2011 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • Marathi
    • Production companies
      • Iconic Chandrakant Productions
      • Pixion
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    • Budget
      • ₹70,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 4 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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