Tukaram (film)

Tukaram
Theatrical poster for Tukaram
Theatrical poster for Tukaram
Directed byChandrakant Kulkarni
Written byAjit Dalvi
Prashant Dalvi
Screenplay byAjit Dalvi and Prashant Dalvi
Story byAjit Dalvi and Prashant Dalvi
Produced bySanjay Chhabria
StarringJitendra Joshi
Padmanabh Gaikwad
Prateeksha Lonkar
Radhika Apte
Veena Jamkar
Sharad Ponkshe
Yatin Karyekar
Vrishasen Dabholkar
Narrated bySachin Khedekar
CinematographyRajen Kothari
Edited byBallu Saluja
Music byAshok Patki
Avadhoot Gupte
Production
company
Everest Entertainment
Distributed byEverest Entertainment
Release date
  • 8 June 2012 (2012-06-08)
CountryIndia
LanguageMarathi

Tukaram is a 2012 Marathi biopic on the life of Saint Tukaram, who was a 17th-century Varkari saint, spiritual poet and devotee of Vitthala. The film was directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni.

The 1936 Marathi film Sant Tukaram by directors Vishnupant Govind Damle and Sheikh Fattelal under the banner of Prabhat Film Company became the first Indian film to receive an award at the 5th Venice International Film Festival.[1] The film still remains popular and is the subject of frequent studies.[2] This was also the first film to capture the life of Tukaram.[3] The 2012 film that was released after 76 years is the second film in Marathi based on the same subject.[4][5] The subject was also inspiration for Kannada film Santa Thukarama (1963) and Telugu film Bhakta Tukaram (1973).[citation needed]

  1. ^ Tejaswini Ganti (2004). Bollywood: A Guidebook To Popular Hindi Cinema. Routledge. p. 208. ISBN 0415288533. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  2. ^ Anurag Basu (26 December 2007). "'Sant Tukaram' film still a topic of interest". Pune. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Saint was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Tukaram on screen". Afternoon. 6 March 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Midday was invoked but never defined (see the help page).