Acclaimed actress Tannishtha Chatterjee was a perfect choice to play Dr Rakhmabai, said to be India’s first practicing lady doctor, in a biopic, says the movie’s director Anant Mahadevan. The Marathi movie will complete Mahadevan’s planned trilogy of biopics. He earlier made “Mee Sindhutai Sapkal” on social activist Sindhutai Sapkal and “Gour Hari Dastaan” on freedom fighter Gour Hari Das.
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Actor-director Anant Mahadevan whose acclaimed Marathi biopic Mee Sindhutai Sapkal won four National Awards was party to quite a revelation recently. The man who had planned to make a film on the life of India’s first lady doctor Anandi Gopal Joshi who died in 1887 at the age of 21, has changed his mind. “While researching, I realised that Anandi Joshi wasn’t India’s first female doctor. She was the first Indian woman to qualify as a doctor but she never practised medicine. The honour is enjoyed by the little-known Dr Rukhmabai who travelled to London to study medicine, and became a qualified doctor in 1894,” says Mahadevan.
Producer : Swapna Patkar
Directed by : Ananth Narayan Mahadevan
Screenplay : Bikas Ranjan Mishra
Story : Mohini Varde
Star Cast :
Tannishtha Chatterjee as Dr. Rakhmabai
Bharat Dabholkar as Grandfather
Santosh Juvekar as Dadaji
Kavita Lad as Mother
Alexx O’Nell as Dr. David
Prasad Oak as Sakharam Arjun
Music by : Rohan Pradhan
