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Chandidas (1932)
133 min | Drama

Chandidas (1932)

133 min | Drama

This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology in ...See moreThis film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology in Bengal, mostly through hymns about the Radha-Krishna legend. The film stressed the poet's teachings through the love story between Chandidas and a low-caste washerwoman, Rami. The conventional villain of the saint film genre, who represents the established order threatened by the outsider's revolutionary influence on common people, is the rapacious upper-caste merchant Bijoynarayan. When Rami rejects his advances, he persuades the high priest to insist that Chandidas must repent or be punished for associating with a low-caste woman. Chandidas agrees to repent but when he sees the injuries Rami has suffered at the hands of the merchant's goons, he rejects institutionalized religion in favor of the higher Vaishnavite call for a more democratic god and leaves the village with Rami. Written by Sujit R. Varma See less

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Name	Known for
Durgadas Bannerjee Chandidas Chandidas See fewer	Maan Bhajan (1923)
Krishna Chandra Dey Sridam Sridam See fewer	Bhagya Chakra (1935)
Manoranjan Bhattacharya Acharya Acharya See fewer	Karnarjun (1941)
Amar Mullick Vijay Narayan Vijay Narayan See fewer	Durgesh Nandini (1951)
Chani Dutta Chatujye Chatujye See fewer	Abasheshe (1935)
Uma Sashi Rami (as Umasashi) Rami (as Umasashi) See fewer	Anath Ashram (1937)
Sunila Kankana Kankana See fewer	Nauka Dubi (1932)
Dhirendranath Banerjee Batuk Ghosal Batuk Ghosal See fewer	Chandidas (1932)

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