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Sant Tulsidas (1939)

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Original title
संत तुलसीदास
Directed by
Jayant Desai
Country
British Raj
Runtime
2h 34m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A big budget saint film about the 16th century poet Tulsidas, who rewrote the Ramayana in Hindi. He struggles between his devotion to his wife and his calling to make the sacred text accessible to common people, eventually becoming an ascetic and facing opposition from the Brahmin clergy in Benares.

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