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Agnikankan: Branded Oath (1932)

Agnikankan: Branded Oath poster
Original title
अग्निकंकण
Directed by
V. Shantaram
Genre
adventure film
Country
British Raj
Runtime
2h 09m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man makes a solemn oath that sets off a chain of adventures and conflicts. The story follows his struggle to uphold that promise amid loyalty and danger.

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What happens

Agnikankan: Branded Oath (Burning Symbol) also called The Branded Oath, is a 1932 Marathi adventure film directed by V. Shantaram. The film was a Prabhat Film Company production and was a bilingual, called Jalti Nishani (Burning Symbol) in Hindi. The cinematography was done by Keshavrao Dhaiber and Art direction by S. Fatehlal. The sound direction was by Vishnupant Govind Damle and the music and lyrics were by Govindrao Tembe. Dialogues for the movie are written by Govindrao Tembe. The character artist Gajanan Jagirdar began his career in films by acting the role of a seventy-five-year-old man at the age of twenty-five. The cast included Shankarrao Bhosle, Kamala Devi, Master Vinayak, Baburao Pendharkar, Nimbalkar and Jagirdar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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