Bhasma Film
| Bhasma | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Purshottam Berde |
| Produced by | Purshottam Berde |
| Starring | Ashok Saraf Charusheela Sabale Ravindra Berde Ramesh Pawar Suhas Bhalekar |
| Music by | Suresh Rane |
| Cinematography | Sameer Athalye |
Release date |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Marathi |
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Bhasma is a 1994 Marathi film directed by Purshottam Berde. The film stars Ashok Saraf & Charusheela Sabale. Although the film was completed in 1994, it received certificate from censor board only in 2009 after 27 scenes were cut[1].
Plot[edit]
Shankar is a Bhasmya who belongs to an exorcist cult & has 4 kids, the eldest one is Durga who has just reached her adolescence. His cult has very rigid & archaic rules which prohibit from doing many things, especially escape from his trade. His cult is supposed to turn ghostly spirits to ashes & hence is known as Bhasmya. As per rules of cult, he cannot earn his living from any other trade & has to depend only on alms, also he cannot teach his kids anything other than exorcism. He leads a nomadic life & has no permanent dwelling & is so poor that there is a daily struggle to get two square meals for his family. He arrives at a new village & makes a large banyan tree, outside the village his abode, which is next to the graveyard.
He visits the village to take stock of the situation. There is no doctor in the village & a quack, Bhagat takes advantage of the situation by performing irrelevant rituals. Shankar & his family know that there is no such thing as a ghost & neither he can cure anyone supposedly affected by ghostly spirits & his entire cult also does the same. Shankar resorts only into tricking people to make-believe that he is an exorcist, yet he is kind & honest at heart. Shankar hates this condemned life & yearns to give a better future for his children, but this would neither be accepted by his cult or the villagers.
Shankar decides to earn goodwill of the villagers & starts treating people with his rituals which bear fruit & as well as does exorcism tricks with help of his wife & kids. There is a section of village which has sympathy for him, while a section is scared of his exorcism & there is a small group of youngsters who are angry that at him as they feel that exorcism would only bring misfortune to the village. In a string of events the Sarpanch (village head) becomes a supporter of Shankar after he is cured of illness.
Later elders from his cult visit & get their share of the money earned by Shankar, they also ask him to arrange for a sacrifice of buffalo & feast the member of his cult & marry off Durga who is still a minor. Shankar agrees to all demands as the consequences of rejecting are very severe. He then attends a Kirtan ( poetic recitation of wisdom written by saints) & is deeply touched by the words. He is deeply consumed by the thought that he is not honest with himself & is fooling people with exorcism tricks.
Shankar with his goodwill woven in the village manages to get his kids to school after a heated debate amongst the villagers. When the elders learn of this they question him, but Shankar counter questions the sanctity of their cult. This angers them & they thrash him & his kids, he receives further thrashing from angry youth but his supporters intervene & save him. Finally Shankar is able to come out of his condemned life.
Cast[edit]
The cast is as follows:
- Ashok Saraf as Bhasmya
- Charusheela Sabale as Bhasmya's wife
Reception[edit]
The film has 7.9 rating on IMDB.
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External links[edit]
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