Jesal Toral

Jesal Toral (1971)

જેસલ તોરલ

Jesal, a hardcore bandit, gets reformed by Toral who is a virtuous, god-fearing Kathi girl. Later, they both get married to each other and lead a pious life.

Date of release
1971-01-01
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 17m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ravindra Dave

Casting

Interesting facts

Jesal Toral is a 1971 Indian Gujarati devotional film written and directed by Ravindra Dave. It proved to be one of the biggest hits of Gujarati cinema and ran for 25 weeks in theatres.

Production

Ravindra Dave had planned to remake his Hindi blockbuster film Nagina (1951) with Leena Chandavarkar and Sanjay Khan, but the project was delayed. As a result, he turned his production crew to Gujarati cinema to keep them employed.

The film is based on local folk legend of bandit Jesal Jadeja who was preached and reformed by Kathi saint-woman Toral. Their memorial shrines are located in Anjar in Kutch district, Gujarat. It was the first Eastmancolor Gujarati film and was a debut film of Upendra Trivedi and Ramesh Mehta. It was shot in Orvo technicolor. As the Laxmi Studio at Baroda was not yet commissioned, the film was partly shot in Kutch and partly in Mumbai.

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