Sound of Heaven: The Story of Balgandharva

Balgandharva.... This movie is absolutely a fantastic movie the music, acting, casting everything on the top.. This movei have all that element... Which a biopic need.. You have to watch this move once... Trust me you end up with a grate Cinematic Experience..

What should a biopic have? Obviously it's a life story of the person but the audience is also looking for an insight into the personality. The audience wants to know what made that person great.

This film does not give us any insight into the personality of the person. We are seeing chronological events in the life of Bal Gandharva. The acting by Subodh Bhave is excellent and you can just enjoy the film for that. The songs are a primer for the non initiated. But without juicy titbits or an insight into the personality of Bal Gandharva, the film is a slog.

I was keen to watch this movie but was really disappointed by lack of any story line and development of characters. The movie could have been rather named as 'Tragedy of Balgandharva'. The only scene which leaves impact is guest appearance of Rahul Deshpande and his song. Subodh Bhave's acting is quiet good but feels has unnecessary saitnt like appearence of old movies like Saint Tukaram.

His big stardom is never portrayed in the movie and his character is portrayed as a loser. He is always portrayed as a struggling artist, who is trying to make two ends meet.

The movie feels very superficial and has lot of factual errors. For example Maharaja Sayaji rao Gaikwad is shown giving him some money just before his death. Balgandharva died in 1967 where as Mh. Sayajirao had died long before in 1939. The poor story line the movie just drifts away without ever taking off. It gives a feel of car doing its whole journey on first gear and never picking up the speed.

It is really a masterpiece biography. The movie based on legendry theater actor and singer Narayan Rajhans aka Balgandharv.

Subodh Bhave play so perfect Balgandharv. Nitin Chandrakant Desai did film production and costume design. Ravi Jadhav did directions of the movie. Kishor Kadam, Vibhawari Deshpande and all actors did great performance. Cinematography is so well and music is also good.