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Original Name: Kunku
English Name: Kunku
Year: 1937
Run Time: 162’
Language: Marathi
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Black And White
Country: India
Director: V. Shantaram
Producer: Vishnupant Damle, Fattelal Shaikh
Cast: Shanta Apte, Keshavrao Date, Vasanti, Vimalabai Vashitha
Screenplay: Narayan Hari Apte
Cinematographer: V. Avadhoot
Sound Designer: Shankarrao Damle
Music Composer: Keshavrao Bhole
Production Designer: Shaikh Fattelal
Production Company: Prabhat Films
Festivals: Venice FF 1937
V. Shantaram had an illustrious career as a filmmaker for almost seven decades. He was one of the early filmmakers to realise the efficacy of the film medium as an instrument of social change and used it successfully to advocate humanism on one hand and expose bigotry and injustice on the other. He Was Also Praised By Charlie Chaplin for his Marathi film Manoos. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was conferred on him in 1985. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1992.
Neera is trapped into marrying an old widower Kakasaheb. He is a progressive lawyer with a son and daughter of Neera’s age. Neera refuses to consummate the union claiming that while suffering can be borne, injustice cannot. Neera faces many hurdles including her aunt-in-law and a lascivious stepson Pandit. Finally, the widower, realising the unfairness of the situation, commits suicide thus freeing Neera.
