Rajrani Meera (1933)

Directed by

Debaki Bose

Genre

drama film

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 31m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1933 Hindi film is about the 16th century saint poet Mirabai. It shows her deep devotion to Lord Krishna and the hardships she faces from her husband's family because of that love. She eventually leaves her royal life to become a wandering mendicant.

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What happens

Rajrani Meera (Rajrani Mira) is a 1933 Hindi devotional film. It was directed by Debaki Bose for New Theatres Ltd. Calcutta. The cinematographer was Nitin Bose with music composed by R. C. Boral. The film was a bilingual, made in Bengali as Meerabai and directed by Hiren Bose and Basanta Chatterjee. The film starred Durga Khote, Prithviraj Kapoor, K. L. Saigal, Pahari Sanyal, Molina Devi and Indubala. K. L. Saigal had a small part that of a devotee in the film with Prithviraj Kapoor playing the male protagonist role. The film made Prithviraj Kapoor who played the role of the King of Mewar, Mirabai's husband, a big star and is cited as one of his career's best films. The story revolves around the sixteenth-century saint-poet Mirabai, who suffers through hardships from her husband's family in her love for Lord Krishna, finally renouncing her family and palace to wander as a mendicant, writing bhakti poetry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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