''Balidan'' also called ''Sacrifice'', is a
1927
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Indian
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silent film
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directed by Naval Gandhi and based on a play by
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
.
It was produced by Orient Pictures Corporation.
Balidan is cited as one of the top ten lost films of Indian Cinema by P. K. Nair.
Hailed as "an excellent and truly Indian film" by The Indian Cinematograph Committee, 1927–28,
it was used by them as one of the films to "show how 'serious' Indian cinema could match Western standards".
The film starred the then popular cast of
Master Vithal
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, Sulochana (
Ruby Myers
Ruby Myers (1907 – 10 October 1983), better known by her stage name Sulochana, was an Indian silent film actress of Jewish ancestry, from the community of Baghdadi Jews in India.
In her heyday she was one of the highest paid actresses of h ...
),
Zubeida
Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir (1911 – 21 September 1988) was an Indian actress. She starred in the first Indian talkie movie ''Alam Ara'' (1931). Her credits include early hits ''Devdas'' (1937), and Sagar Movietone's first talkie, ''Meri Jaan''. ...
, Sultana, Jal Khambata and Jani Babu.
A social-reformist costume drama film, written by Tagore in 1887,
it was set in the fictional kingdom of Tippera, and involved clashes between a progressive-minded King and a "tradition-bound priest".
The film was stated to be commercially successful.
Cast
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Master Vithal
Master or masters may refer to:
Ranks or titles
* Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans
* Grandmaster (chess), National Maste ...
* Sulochana (
Ruby Myers
Ruby Myers (1907 – 10 October 1983), better known by her stage name Sulochana, was an Indian silent film actress of Jewish ancestry, from the community of Baghdadi Jews in India.
In her heyday she was one of the highest paid actresses of h ...
)
*
Zubeida
Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir (1911 – 21 September 1988) was an Indian actress. She starred in the first Indian talkie movie ''Alam Ara'' (1931). Her credits include early hits ''Devdas'' (1937), and Sagar Movietone's first talkie, ''Meri Jaan''. ...
* Sultana
* Jal Khambata
* Jani Babu
* J. Makhijani
References
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1927 films
1920s Hindi-language films
Films based on works by Rabindranath Tagore
Indian black-and-white films
Indian silent films
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