Kahi Debe Sandesh

Kahi Debe Sandesh (1965)

The story of the film is set in a village of Chhattisgarh (then Madhya Pradesh) which has prevalent caste discrimination. It starts with the landlord talking to the Purohit (Priest), and later with his wife Dulari regarding how he wants to take Charandas (who belongs to the [Satanami] community) to court for land acquisition. Fulwati (Charandas' wife) asks him to settle the matter instead of fighting over it. The Purohit on the other hand, tries to instigate differences between Satanami community among upper caste people through his preaching. But the kids in the village seems to question caste discrimination and discuss it in their school. After some years, Nayandas (son of Charandas) goes to Agriculture University for higher education & becomes good friends with Ravikant Tiwari.

Erscheinungsdatum
1965-04-16
Regie
Manu Nayak

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Kahi Debe Sandesh is a 1965 Chhattisgarhi film written, directed and produced by Manu Nayak. Dealing with contemporary social issues such as untouchability and caste discrimination, it became the first Chhattisgarhi-language film.

Production

90 percent of the film was shot in Palari (now Balodabazar district), about 70 km from the capital, Raipur. The film was made in just 27 days in a budget of Rs 1.25 lakh only.

The record-breaking success of the first Bhojpuri film Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo in 1962 inspired Manu Nayak to make a film in Chhattisgarhi dialect. He announced that he will be making a film. This news was published in all the popular film newspapers. Many days were spent in chaos. The question was about finance. Finally, Those brokers who financed Anupam had seen the honesty of Manu, giving them Rs 5000 each without interest.

"I had seen it happening even in my own house. Whenever my friends from lower castes used to come to my home, my mother used to not say anything but soon after they had left she used to clean the entrance of the house. This and few other instances deeply affected me and I realized that until caste discrimination is addressed properly to the masses, society would not progress." Said Manu Nayak in an interview.

Manna Dey, Suman Kalyanpur, Meenu Purushottam and Mahendra Kapoor also sang songs in this film in a very small amount following Mohammad Rafi. Congress MLA from Palari, late Shri Brijlal Verma also helped Manu to arrange the shooting locations in the village itself. The first shot was taken at Vivekananda Ashram in Raipur. The film was extremely difficult to complete in limited expenditure.

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