Diksha (दीक्षा) 33 years old

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. Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya, as well as his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay, who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a few days, and when he returns nothing is the same anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to remove her from the village, they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow.

Credits

Diksha Cast

Name Character
Sulabha Arya as Dondamma (Koga's guardian)
Nana Patekar He was 40, now 73 years old as Koga Pandit
K.K. Raina He was 38, now 72 years old as Shrikar Upadhyay
Manohar Singh He was 53, 64 years old when he died as Udup Pandit
Vijay Kashyap as Manjunath

Diksha Crew

Name Department
Apurba Kishore Bir as Cinematography. He was 43 (now 76) years old Crew
Diksha poster
Diksha (33 years)

  • Release day: Tuesday, January 01, 1991
  • Runtime: 120 minutes