22 June 1897 (1979)
January 1, 1979Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Arundathi Nag
Daughter-In-Law #1
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Prabhakar Patankar
Damodar Chapekar
Udayan Dixit
Vasudev Chapekar
Vasudev Palande
Hari Vinayak Chapekar
Shanta Jog
Dwarka Hari Chapekar
Sujal Watve
Daughter-In-Law #2
Dipali Kulkarni
Daughter-In-Law #3
Satish Khare
Govindmama
Sadanand Borse
Ranade
Shrikant Gadre
Apte
Suresh Bhasale
Dutta Bhuskute
Jairam Hardikar
Ganesh Dravid
Rod Gilbert
Inspector Brewin
Ravindra Mankani
Balkrishna Chapekar
Shankar Nag
Screenplay / Writer
Vijay Tendulkar
Dialogue
Jayoo Patwardhan
Costume Designer / Art Direction / Director
Madhu Sinha
Editor
Nachiket Patwardhan
Story / Director
Vinay Shrivastav
Sound Designer
Anand Modak
Music
Navroze Contractor
Cinematography
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22 June 1897 is a 1979 Marathi film co-written by Shankar Nag and Nachiket Patwardhan and directed by the husband and wife team of Jayoo Patwardhan and Nachiket Patwardhan. The duo are also practising architects. It is based on the true life story of the assassination of British Government officers Walter Charles Rand ICS and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst by the Chapekar brothers.
The film has been included in the book One Hundred Indian Feature Films: An Annotated Filmography, a representative selection from the first Indian talkies to the then-present date (1988). The title of the film is the date of the assassination, 22 June 1897. It won the 1980 Indian Silver Lotus at the National Film Awards in two categories: Best film on National Integration and Art Direction. It also won the 1980 Maharashtra State awards for best film of the year and best director. The film has been included in the selected collection of Indian films and videos in the US Library of Congress. Most of the performers in the film then belonged to Theatre Academy, Pune.