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Screenplay
  
Jamshed Ratnagar

Cinematography
  
Navel P. Bhatt

Country
  
India

Director
  
Naval Gandhi

Story by
  
Rabindranath Tagore

Genres
  
Silent film, Drama film

Language
  
Silent

Release date
  
1927

Based on
  
Bisarjan (play)

Writer
  
Rabindranath Tagore, Jamshed Ratnagar

Cast
  
Zubeida
(Aparna),
Ruby Myers
(Quen Gunavati),
Master Vithal
,
Jal Khambatta
,
Jani Babu

Remembering rajguru on balidan day


Balidan also called Sacrifice, is a 1927 Indian cinema's silent film directed by Naval Gandhi and based on a play by Rabindranath Tagore. 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".

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The film starred the then popular cast of Master Vithal, Sulochana (Ruby Myers), Zubeida, 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

  • Master Vithal
  • Sulochana (Ruby Myers)
  • Zubeida
  • Sultana
  • Jal Khambata
  • Jani Babu
  • J. Makhijani
  • References

    Balidan Wikipedia
    Balidan IMDb