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BAPU NE KAHA THA
(Gandhiji's Sayings)
[feature film]

 

1962/16mm/35mm/2284mts. 83 mins/35mm-Hindi, English, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati/16mm-Hindi,English

Director : Vijay Bhatt
Script : Krishan Chander, Mausa Kalim
Camera : Prakash Malhotra
Editor : B.C.Vyas
Music : Avinash Vyas
Cast : Nana Palsikar, Sandeep, Manju, Neena Kesari

 

Director's Biography
Vijay Bhatt

Born in 1907 in Palitana, Saurashtra. Vijay Bhatt studied up to Inter-Science at Xavier's College. Bombay and then obtained a diploma in Electrical Lighting and Traction from the London International Correspondence Schools. A three years slint with the Bombay Electrical Supply and Tramways company followed before hovered off to charting an illustrious career in film Bhat made a lasting impression on the Indian film scene with his highly successful Baiju Bawara, the film that plummeted both Meena Kumari and Bharat Bhooshan into stardom. He also gained a mass following for his mythological films among the most well known of which was Ram Rajya Starting in 1929 with the making of five silent film Vijay Bhatt went on to being associated as scriptwriter, producer and director of near to sixtyfive feature films. In 1947 Mr Skurus. President Twentieth Century Fox awarded Bhatt a Scrollof Honour at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

Synopsis

Mahatma Gandhi, affectionately known to his followers as Bapu, was great believer in Truth and gave the motto of Satyameva Jayate to our country Raja a village boy, decide to adopt the motto against heavy odds. He succeeds in informing his village which had forgotten the meaning and value of believing in truth. Morarji Desai features in this film talking to children about the childhood of Mahatma Gandhi.
   
   
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THE GOLDEN ELEPHANT -15 , 15TH INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL, HYDRABAD, INDIA, NOVEMBER 14-20, 2007