Sant Sakhu 1941

Sant Sakhu is a 1941 Indian Bollywood devotional film released on 1941. The film is directed by Damle.
The only woman-centred Saint film at Prabhat with Wadkar in the classic role of Sakhu, a Marathi Saint poet whose existence is mainly legendary as opposed to the better documented male ones. She is depicted as a devoultry religious woman married to a weak husband (Kulkarni) and opressed by her cruel mother-in-law Mhalsakku (Gauri) and sister-in-law Durga (Majumdar). Recognition comes at the end of the film through a series of miracles (including the classic scene where she is tied to a pillar, her disembodied death and reincarnation Unlike the directors earlier and better-known film in the genre, this was mainly a family melodrama. The celebratory power of the genre only appears sproadically, e.g. the pilgrims walking to Pandharpur. Unusually, the mandatory miracle scenes wee illustrating saintly power esp. at the end when the real Sakhu confronts her divine stand-in to confuse everyone in the village and to attract charges of being a ghost. The bisarre military vehicles captioned What leads an army-Faith. [Source: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema] Check out this page for more updates on Sant Sakhu.