| Bangarwadi | |
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| Directed by | Amol Palekar |
| Written by | Vyankatesh Madgulkar (screenplay and dialogues) |
| Produced by | National Film Development Corporation of India Doordarshan |
| Starring | Chandrakant Kulkarni Chandrakant Mandare Adhishree Atre Nandu Madhav Sunil Ranade Upendra Limaye |
| Cinematography | Debu Deodhar |
| Edited by | Waman Bhosale |
| Music by | Vanraj Bhatia |
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Running time | 124 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Marathi |
Bangarwadi (Marathi:बनगरवाडी) is a 1995 IndianMarathi film directed byAmol Palekar. It is based on an eponymous novel written byVyankatesh Madgulkar and published in 1955. It is the story of a young school teacher and his experiences in a small village of shepherds in theprincely state of Aundh during the 1940s.
The story begins with a young school teacher, played by Chandrakant Kulkarni, walking alone towards a village called Bangarwadi, across a deserted landscape. When he reaches Bangarwadi, he finds that the school has shut down and that the people of the village are reluctant to send their children to school. With the support of theKarbhari (the village head), the teacher convinces the villagers to send their children to school. He runs the school for the next few months and helps the illiterate and the needy in the village, which sometimes lands him into trouble. Soon, he convinces the villagers to set up a gymnasium through community participation. He invites the king of the state,Pant Pratinidhi for its inauguration. The sudden death of the village head leaves the village and the teacher shocked. Then comes prolonged drought. The teacher tries his best to get help from the government, writing frequent letters describing the graveness of situation, but he gets no response. Drought forces the people of Bangarwadi to abandon the village, leaving the school teacher alone and with no students.
Reviewing the film at the Indian Panorama section of theInternational Film Festival of India, S. R. Ashok Kumar ofThe Hindu wrote that "If only Amol Palekar had concentrated a little more on the screenplay and editing it would have become a memorable movie".[1]
Bangarwadi was screened at several international film festivals:
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