- Saraswatichandra
"Saraswatichandra" is a
black-and-white fy|1968Hindi film directed byGovind Saraiya and starringNutan andManish . The music is byKalyanji-Anandji , who won aNational Film Award for the "originality of the score".The film was based on "Saraswatichandra", a landmark Gujarati novel, written by
Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi , a famous author of early twentieth centuryGujarat, India . The novel, written in five parts, narrates the lifestyle and ideology of people in the early 20th century. It depicts the social fabric of that time: extended family life and the beginning of the meltdown of old customs and traditions. It starts with a romantic courtship between Saraswatichandra and Kumud, followed by a complex plot where Kumud ends up a "Sadhwi " (a minister or a preacher) and spends a life ofcelibacy . A peculiar feature of the novel is that names of all characters in the novel, over thirty of them, represent their personality. For example the hero, Saraswatichandra, is a very learned man, an author and a poet, and Saraswati is the goddess of literacy, while the leading lady is Kumud, which means beautiful like a water lily.
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