Amrit Manthan (film)

Amrit Manthan
Directed byV. Shantaram
Written byNarayan Hari Apte Veer Mohammed Puri
Produced byPrabhat Film Company
StarringChandra Mohan
Nalini Tarkhad
Shanta Apte
G. R. Mane
CinematographyKeshavrao Dhaiber
Music byKeshavrao Bhole
Production
company
Prabhat Film Company
Release date
  • 1934 (1934)
Running time
155 min
CountryIndia
LanguagesHindi and Marathi

Amrit Manthan (English: Churning for nectar) is a 1934 Indian costume-drama film directed by V. Shantaram for his Prabhat Film Company.[1] The film was produced simultaneously in Hindi and Marathi.[2] The film starred Chandra Mohan, Nalini Tarkhad, Shanta Apte, G. R. Mane, Varde and Kelkar. The film was based on Narayan Hari Apte's novel Bhagyashree.[3] The Hindi translation was done by Veer Mohammed Puri, who also wrote the lyrics for the film.

The narrative in ''Amrit Manthan'' focuses on a reformist king who bans the sacrifice of animals and humans in his kingdom.[4]

The film was tremendously successful all over the country. It ran in one Bombay theatre for thirty weeks. Prabhat's distributor, Baburao Pai, coined the term "silver jubilee" when "Amrit Manthan" completed its twenty-fifth week: a first in the Indian film industry.[5][6]

  1. ^ CITWF. "Amrit Manthan 1934". citwf.com. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  2. ^ Banerjee, Srivastava (2013). Hundred Indian Feature Films: An Annotated Filmography. Routledge. ISBN 9781135841058. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  3. ^ Chandra, Balakrishnan, Pali, Vijay Kumar. "Amrit Manthan 1934". indiavideo.org. Retrieved 20 August 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Jasraj, Madhura Pandit (15 July 2015). V. Shantaram: The Man Who Changed Indian Cinema. India: Hay House, Inc. ISBN 978-93-84544-41-6.
  5. ^ Jasraj, Madhura Pandit (15 July 2015). V. Shantaram: The Man Who Changed Indian Cinema. Hay House, Inc. ISBN 978-93-84544-41-6.
  6. ^ "Films of Prabhat Film Company". prabhatfilm.com. Retrieved 25 January 2021.