Chandidas (1932)

5.7/10 133 min Drama

Overview

This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology in Bengal, mostly through hymns about the Radha-Krishna legend.

Cast

Durgadas Bandyopadhyay

Chandidas

Krishna Chandra Dey

Sridam

Manoranjan Bhattacharya

Acharya

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