Veer Ghatotkach (1949)

Directed by

Nanabhai Bhatt

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 07m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film retells a story from the Mahabharata focusing on Ghatotkach. It follows characters from the epic including his mother and the princess Surekha.

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What happens

Veer Ghatotkach also known as Surekha Haran is a 1949 Hindi Indian mythological film, starring Meena Kumari, Shahu Modak, Sumiti Gupta, Vasant Pahelwan, Naranjan Sharma and S. N. Tripathi. Meena Kumari, after her career as a child artist, started doing adult roles as heroines in mythologicals and fantasy genres before she made it in mainstream cinema with Baiju Bawra (1952). It's an adaptation of the Maya Bazar story from Mahabharata, but from the perspective of Ghatotkach. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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