Yesterday 7th September was the Birth Anniversary of a great Freedom Fighter Umaji Naik. While searching a bit on internet I found an interesting movie called “Umaji Naik” which was released on 4th June 1938.
Not much is known about this movie today. I believe even the film doesn’t exist today. Please let me know if movie exists!
While doing the research I stumbled across advertisements and articles about Umaji Naik Movie in a daily newspaper called Bombay Chronicles. I am including clippings from that newspaper in this post.
Following is the information of “Umaji Naik” movie
| Producer | Uday Studio |
| Writer | Vishnupant Aundhkar |
| Director | Gajanan Jagirdar |
| Choreographer | Sarpotdar |
| Music Composer | Sadashiv Narwekar |
| Songs/ Lyrics | Vishnu Ganesh Deshpande |
| Artists | Keshavrao Date, Madhukar Gupte, Kamala Devi Badodekar, Shankarrao Bhonsale, Rajnee, Sushila |
Following are some clippings from Bombay Chronicles in 1938
Some interesting thoughts after going through these clippings from Bombay Chronicles
- There are some interesting comments about the difference between Gandhi ji’s Non-Violent (निःशस्त्र) movement and Freedom fighter Umaji Naik’s Violent (सशस्त्र) movement (please read the advertisements above to understand what I mean?)
- Producers are depicting, promoting a movie about a violent struggle against British occupiers in the time when India was still occupied by Britishers
- British rulers allowed such movie to release even if it was totally against British rule. Something current “rulers” can learn a bit about Freedom of Expression!