Shankar Parvati

Overview

A dance-based mythological featuring Shankar (Arun), the triad in the Hindu pantheon (sometimes equated with Dionysus), who dances the Tandava, the dance of destruction, when his wife Sati kills herself after she is humiliated by her father. He then retires into meditation from which he has to be awoken to rid the world of the demon Tarakasura. The seductive powers of Sati, reborn as Parvati (Bose), liven up Shankar but she has to pay for this by doing extensive penance, after which she can be accepted again by her husband as a real wife, partly through the divine intervention of Vishnu.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 3, 1943

Original language

Hindi

Spoken languages

Hindi

Countries

India

Production

Ranjit Movietone

Cast

Sadhona Bose,Kamala Chatterjee,Brijmala,Narmada Shankar,Arun,Mahipal

Director

Chaturbhuj Doshi

Writer

Chaturbhuj Doshi,Pandit Indra

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0214115