Ratra Aarambh
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Directed by | Ajay Phansekar |
Produced by | Laxmi Venkatesh Films |
Starring | Dilip Prabhavalkar Deepak Shirke Anand Abhyankar |
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Country | India |
Language | Marathi |
Ratra Aarambh (Devnagari: रात्र आरंभ) is a Marathi thriller movie directed by , released in India in 1999, starring Dilip Prabhavalkar as an old man suffering from split personality. This is the first Marathi movie on paranoid schizophrenia
The story revolves around the two worlds inhabited by Prabhakar Phadke / Vasudeo Balwant Thombre - Dilip Prabhavalkar - an ordinary senior citizen who is an avid reader of crime fiction. Living his normal life by day, he is transformed into his fantasy world by night. This is the world in which he imagines himself to be a blind industrialist who is the target of conspiracies of his near and dear ones. This schizophrenia leads to a tragedy in his real life and he ends up at a mental asylum where the psychiatrists try to separate the fantasy from reality so that he can lead his normal life once again. The film has a powerful performance by Dilip Prabhawalkar in the central role. Prabhavalkar won the Filmfare award for his role.
A similar South Indian movie, called "Aparichit", was released on this subject. Note this Marathi film you can't compare with South Indian movie, the subject is totally different.
- 1999 films
- Marathi-language films
- Indian films
- 1990s Marathi-language films
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