New Marathi film ‘Taptapadi’ inspired by Tagore’s story

Neena Kulkarni

India has always been a principal society that believes in its Culture and Social values. The India that Gurudev Ravindranath Tagore portrayed in his Short Story ‘Drushtidaan’ tells the stories of love, devotion and sacrifice. Director Sachin Baliram Nagargoje, who is inspired by ‘Drushtidaan’, is now offering a new Marathi film ‘Taptapadi’, which is the story of Madhav, Meera and Sunanda.
This period drama which is set on the backdrop of pre independence era, depicts the age old culture, values and human intricacies of society that were in practice during the Britishraaj have been minutely marked and executed in the film by the director.

To give cinematic form to this story, the director has tried to relate the screenplay of this film with that of traditional Maharashtrian culture, which existed during the period 1930-40. He has also taken into account the reforms that were noticed during that period.

The film stars Kashyap Parulekar (Madhav), Veena Jamkar (Meera), Shruti Marathe(Sunanda) in lead characters which also sees the strong impact of characters played by Neena Kulkarni, Sharad Ponkshe, Ambarish Deshpande, Ashwini Ekbote among others. The film’s first look is now out and it will be released on 28th March 2014.