indian cinema heritage foundation

Sign In

If you have already registered with us!

Forgot password?

Don’t have an account?

Create your account

Encyclopedia

Films

People

Songs

On This Day

07 Aug, 1916

Cinemaazi remebers P L Santoshi on his birth anniversary

07 Aug, 1925

Cinemaazi remembers Keshto Mukherjee on his 100th birth anniversary

07 Aug, 1955

Cinemaazi wishes Suresh Wadkar a very happy birthday

Choose a Date

Search Cinemaazi

films

Manohar (1954)

L V Prasad

Subscribe to read full article

This section is for paid subscribers only. Our subscription is only $37/- for one full year.
You get unlimited access to all paid section and features on the website with this subscription.

Subscribe now

Not ready for a full subscription?

You can access this article for $2, and have it saved to your account for one year.

Pay Now
  • Release Date03/03/1954
  • GenreHistorical Fiction
  • FormatB-W
  • LanguageHindi, Tamil, Telugu
  • Run Time199 mins, 166 mins
  • Length5615.93 meters, 5451 meters
  • Number of Reels20 reels
  • Gauge35 mm
  • Censor RatingU
  • Censor Certificate Number8173
  • Certificate Date22/02/1954
Share
59 views

The happy life of Chola king Purushottam, with his wife Padmavati and their son Manohar is disrupted by the wily vamp Vasantsena, who entered the royal household as a maid and ultimately became the king's mistress.

True to the ideals of Indian womanhood Padmavati believed her husband's happiness as her own and resigned to her fate. She even prevailed upon Manohar not to harm the king and Sena in anyway.

Vasantseua on the other band bad poisoned her husband Kesarivarrnan and had a design to kill Manohar so that her own son could be crowned king.

But Kesarivarman escaped death with the help of a Sanyasi and bad learnt to become invisible by the use of a special herb. To wreck his vengeance on her Kesharivarma staged a drama on Manohar's birthday exposing therein Vasantsena's villainy. But Vasantsena impressed on the king that the drama had been plotted against their happy life by queen Padmavati and Satyasheel. The drama on the other hand roused Manohar to avenge the wrong done to his mother by Vasantsena. But Padmavati again calmed him and advised him to go to war with the Pandya king Muthuvijay. Vasantsena sent her henchmen, Boudayan to kill Manohar.

Manohar won the war. Mathuvijay was killed. But Manohar had lost his heart to the Pandya Rajkumari. Boudayan, unsuccessful in his mission, stole away Manohar's sword. Having come to know this, Manohar rushed to Chola Kingdom. Boudayan's game was foiled and be in his turn exposed Vasantsen's plot. Manohar's blood boiled. Once again he was roused to action against Sena but Padma again stopped him.

And thus the bitterness and animosity between Manohar and Vasantsena went deeper and deeper day by day; and ultimately things came to a head, when Vassntsena called Manohar a bastard during the "Rathimanmatha" festival. Enraged Manohar was about to stab her but his mother's word held him back.

The constant clash between Padmavati's righteousness patience suffering and Vasantsena's treachery and villainy resulted in death and deadening clouds descending over the Chola Kingdom. Queen Padmavati had already been imprisoned. Even the King was taken captive and Manohar was sentenced to be executed

But was "Death" the only reward to the dash, daring, sacrifice, heroism and above all the flame of Love that burnt in Manohar's heart.

Well, see it for yourself on the screen.

[From the official press booklet]
 

Watch Film

Cast

Crew

Films by the same director

Missamma

Pempudu Koduku

Shavukkaru

view all

what's trending

videos

Ramananda Sengupta | Cinematographer | Cinema Memory Project

cinema memory project
)

10 O'clock

films
)

G P Sippy

people

social media

@instagram
@twitter
@facebook
Cinemaazi
# tag library