दीक्षा

दीक्षा (1991)

Circa British Rule in India, a man vows to make his only surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children. He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka, South India, where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya, Udup Pandit. Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya, as well as his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay, who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a few days, and when he returns nothing is the same anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to remove her from the village, they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow.

Erscheinungsdatum
1991-01-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (6)
Laufzeit
2 Std. 0 Min.
Genres
Drama
Regie
Arun Kaul

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Diksha ist ein indischer Spielfilm von Arun Kaul aus dem Jahr 1991. Er basiert auf einem Roman von U. R. Ananthamurthy.

Hintergrund

Dieselbe Geschichte von U. R. Ananthamurthy wurde bereits 1977 von Girish Kasaravalli unter dem Titel Ghattashraddha verfilmt, der ebenfalls mit Filmpreisen bedacht wurde.

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