Cinemaazi remembers Vishram Bedekar on his birth anniversary
13 Aug 1906
As a playwright Vishram Bedekar wrote several significant plays like Brahmakumari, Vaje Paool Apule, Naro Wa Kinjaro Wa and Tilak Ani Agarkar. He wrote his only novel Ranangan in 1938. The transition to cinema happened when his troupe adapted their successful play Krishnarjun Yuddha into a film in 1934. He co-directing three more films with Vamanrao N Bhatt, namely Satteche Prayog (1935), Thakicha Lagna (1935) and Pundalik (1936). He went to study filmmaking in the UK and upon his return, joined Prabhat Film Company to script V Shantaram's Shejari/ Padosi (1941). He directed films like Pahila Palna (1942), and Nagad Narayan (1943), before scripting Gajanan Jagirdar’s Ramshastri (1944), etc.
