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Original Name: Songadya
English Name: Songadya
Year: 1971
Run Time: 142’
Language: Marathi
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Black and White
Country: India
Director: Govind Kulkarni
Producer: Dada Kondke
Cast: Nilu Phule, Dada Kondke, Usha Chavan, Ganpat Patil
Screenplay: Vasant Sabnis
Cinematographer: Arvind Laad
Editor: N.S Vaidya
Sound Designer: Ramnath Jathar
Music Composer: Ram Kadam
Production Designer: K. D. Mahajani
Production Company: Sadiccha Chitra
Govind Kulkarni is a Marathi film writer, director, and an actor. In different capacities, he has been worked in more than 40 films in his career. In his early days, he formed a close association with Dada Kondke and directed few of Dada's early films. Songadya, Harya Narya Zindabad, Ekta Jeev Sadashiv, and Banya Bapu are some of his well known and successful films.
Innocent Namya the son of the tough Shitabai, is taken by his friends to see a Tamasha performance. He gets so excited by the Mahabharata scene of Draupadi's Vastraharan, that he jumps on stage disrupting the performance. He goes to the next village to see the performance again, where as the actor who is to play the monkey-god Hanuman gets drunk, He is invited to understudy the part. Namya's distraught mother kicks him out of the house, but the dancer Kalavati offers him shelter. Then a simpleton Namya falls in love with the glamorous Kalavati.
