Mukta (1994 film)

Mukta
Directed by	Jabbar Patel
Produced by	Ashok Mhatre
Starring	Sonali Kulkarni Vikram Gokhale Shreeram Lagoo Reema Lagoo
Music by	Anand Modak
Cinematography	Shankar Bardhan
Release dates	1994
Country	India
Language	Marathi

Mukta is a 1994 Marathi film directed by Jabbar Patel. The film stars Shreeram Lagoo, Sonali Kulkarni, Reema Lagoo and Vikram Gokhale in lead roles.

Mukta won the 1995 Nargis Dutt Award for National Integration.^[1]

Plot

Daughter of a Marathi poet settled in United States, Mukta returns to her ancestral home when she gets a post-graduate scholarship to study sociology. She lives with her grandfather, Abasaheb Kanase-Patil, a veteran of Maharashtra's co-operative movement. At the university she joins a street theatre group of Dalit activists and is drawn to the group's leader Milind Wagh, a fearless student leader and poet. Family's unease increases when her friend from America Julian arrives. Julian, however, wins over her grandfather accompanying him to a pilgrimage to Pandharpur. The old man recalling Marathi Saint poets’ struggle against caste inequalities is complemented by Julian singing of songs associated with the struggle against the racial discrimination in US.^[2][3]

Cast

• Sonali Kulkarni as Mukta
• Shriram Lagoo as her grandfather
• Vikram Gokhale as her father Eknath
• Avinash Narkar as Milind Wagh
• Reema Lagoo as Rukmini
• Caleb Obura Obwatinyka as Mukta's African-American friend Julian
• Madhu Kambikar as Chandrabhaga
• Prashant Subedar as Prithviraj
• Chandrakant Kale as Pranjpe

References

1. "Mukta won Nargis Dutt Award". Times of India. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
2. "Mukta". Cinemas of India. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
3. "Mukta". Indian Cine.ma. Retrieved 17 July 2015.

External links

Mukta at the Internet Movie Database