Tulsidas 1954

Tulsidas is a 1954 Indian Bollywood devotional film released on Jan 01, 1954. The film is directed by Harsukh Bhatt.
A boy Rambola, hated by all and sympathised by none happens to meet Saint Narharideas, seeing a spark of greatness hidden in the boy brings him to his Ashram. Here Rambola is renamed as Tulsidas. Studying all the shastras Tulsidas becomes a scholar. . Tulsidas, now grown up, composes lucid poems in Hindi, thus making the art of poetry enjoyable by scholars as well as by those who do not know Sanskrit. Ravidatta, a student of the same Ashrama, is jealous of Tulsidas. According to Ravidatta, to wirite in a language other than Sanskrit is to insult that great divine language. Further Ravidattas anger knows no bounds when he sees Tulsidas making love to Ratnavali who is to be betrothed to him (Ravidatta) But ultimately her father Dinabandhu Pathak chooses Tulsidas for Ratnavalis hand. Ravidatta burning with jealousy leaves the Ashram of Narharidas to go to Benares Haladhar (Hallua) another student follows Him. . Tulsidas and Ratna are married in the midst of celectial music and blessings of Narharidas, Dinabandhu Pathak, and other guests from from Badaria and Soro. . After marriage the intesity of Tulsidass love for Ratnaincreases to such an extent that he forgets his devotion to Shree Ram. Tulsidass madness for Ratnavali becomes the talk of the town. . One day Ratnas brother Shambhu takes her with him to Badana where father Pathakji is seriously ill. . Tulsidas comes home bringing a beautiful pair of bracelets for Ratna but instead of her he finds a note left by her that she had gone to see her father who was ill. But Tulsidas cannot live without his wife. In rain and storm he comes to Badaria and stealthily gets into Pathak house. The neighbours of Pathak first mistake Tulsidas as a thief, but ultimately they recognise him. . Ratna hears the taunts of the neighbours that Tulsidas is a mad lover to come to meet his wife at her fathers house. She comes to Tulsidas and with anger, sorrow and pain hates this shameful deed of his. She tells him the piercing words `Your love for my frail body made of flesh and bones is futile. Had you transformed this intense love from this human body to Shree Ram, both you and I could have escaped from this merry-go-round of life and death". Saying this she goes away. Her words were like lightening in the dark sky. The thunder of this lightning is echoed in his heart where starts a great storm. The wind of this storm blows away the heap of sand that covered the gem of devotion to Shree Ram. He goes away from here with a decision to renounce the world. . When Ratna comes back in the room she finds a note in which he had written "Leaving the wordly ties and the love of my wife. I am going to some unknown place with the aim of meeting Ram." She almost faints. . Repeatedly calling Shree Ram like a lunatic, Tulsidas falls on the trunk of a tree. A spirit living in this tree shows him the way to meet Ram. On coming to Chitrakut he sees Ram who appears before him. Tears of joy flow from his eyes. Being inspired from this event he comes to Ayodhya and writes. "Ramcharit Manas", his famous epic poem on Shree Rams life. Preaching Ram-Bhakti (devotion to Ram) to the people he comes to Benares. In Benares Ravidatta and other pandits, the champions of Sanshrit, oppose his Rammayana wirtten in easy Hindi language. But they are all convinced when one day Lord Vishwanath himself endorses his Ramayana and accepts it as a real work of poetry and devotion. . But Ravidatta is adamant. He thinks that is just the black-magic. He decides to set Tulsidas hut of fire. . Ratna and Shambhus wife come to Benares, where, to their surprise they hear that Tulsidass hut is set on fire They rush to the spot. Shambhu and his wife meet Ratna seeing Tulsidas life in danger rans into the hut... and .... and... Check out this page for more updates on Tulsidas.