: Why we are still singing the songs of ‘Pinjara’ 50 years after its release #IndiaNEWS At the beginning of March 1972, things were looking ugly in Maharashtra. A terrible drought spread misery throughout

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Why we are still singing the songs of ‘Pinjara’ 50 years after its release #IndiaNEWS
At the beginning of March 1972, things were looking ugly in Maharashtra. A terrible drought spread misery throughout the state. And yet, on the last day of the month, Marathi cinema’s first colour film Pinjara (Cage) was released to a thunderous response. In the pre-television and pre-internet era, strong word of mouth ensured long queues outside movie theatres. Pinjara ran for a record 134 weeks in Pune alone and won the National Film Award for Best Marathi Film in 1973.V Shantaram’s Pinjara, a loose adaptation of the German film The Blue Angel (1930), stars Sandhya as a lavani dancer and Sriram Lagoo as the morally upright teacher who falls in love with her. Shantaram’s labour of love is considered a milestone among films based on the tamasha performative tradition. The April 29 release Chandramukhi, directed by Prasad Oak and starring Amruta Khanwilkar and Addinath Kothare, is the latest film to explore tamasha and its related form, lavani.The heavily emotive narrative and the film’s music, composed by Ram Kadam, remain popular. This cage simply doesn’t age. Back in the day, song requests on All India Radio’s Marathi station were dominated by Kadam’s tunes from Pinjara. The most in-demand tune was Disla Ga...Read more

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