Katyar Kaljat Ghusali

The story is set in a princely state. The favoured singer of the court is Pandit Bhanu Shankar Shastri. He is a master of the classical tradition. Every year a contest is held at the Dussehra festival. The winner takes the title of court singer. The prize is a mansion and a dagger. The dagger is called a katyar. Khansaheb Aftab Hussain enters the same contest. He loses fourteen years in a row. The defeat eats at him from inside. His household and the people around him give him no peace. In the end his anger turns in another direction. Sadashiv, a pupil of Panditji, comes before him. The young man wants to learn from him in secret. The rivalry between two schools of music grows. The film was adapted from a play first staged in 1967. Shankar Mahadevan and Sachin Pilgaonkar appear in the hundred and sixty two minute film, an Indian production Subodh Bhave finished in 2015.