Diksha (1991)

Name: Diksha
Genre: Drama
Released: 1991
Duration: 2 h
Cast: Nana Patekar, Manohar Singh, Vijay Kashyap, Anubhav Mishra, Sulabha Arya

Hindi movie · Drama · 120 min · TMDB 6.5/10

Circa British Rule in India, a man vows to make his only surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children. He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka, South India, where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya, Udup Pandit.

Cast: Nana Patekar (Koga Pandit), Manohar Singh (Udup Pandit), Vijay Kashyap (Manjunath), Anubhav Mishra (Ganesh), Sulabha Arya (Dondamma (Koga's guardian)), K.K. Raina (Shrikar Upadhyay).

Directed by Arun Kaul.

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