Ekta Jeev Sadashiv is a 1972 Indian Marathi-language comedy drama film directed by Govind Kulkarni, starring Dada Kondke and Usha Chavan as leads. It was remade in Hindi as Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hain, which was released in 2000. The core plot of the 1974 Kannada movie Bangaarada Panjara was thematically similar to this movie since it was also based on the Marathi play Ekta Jeev Sadashiv.
Plot
Sadashiv, the infant son of a poor family, has an unspecified childhood illness. For reasons of health, Sadashiv's family sends him away from the city to live in a country village. There he is raised by a simple couple whom he regards as his parents. When he becomes a young man, he falls in love with a village girl. When the time comes for Sadashiv to marry, his parents inform him that his biological parents live in the city and want him to settle there. Sadashiv bids a tearful farewell to his village and its inhabitants. He travels to the city of his birth parents. The rest of the movie presents the young man's comic struggle to adjust to city life, its corruption, and its hypocrisy.
Cast
Dada Kondke
Usha Chavan
Ratnamala
Gulab Korgaonkar
Suman Jagtap
Pushpa Bhosale
Madhu Apte
Sharad Talwalkar
Bipin Talpade
Nana Oak
Saroj Sukhtankar
Janardhan Sohni
Appa Gajmal
Dhananjay Bhave
B. Majnalkar
Bhalchandra Kulkarni
Gulab Mokashi
Madhu Bhosle
Pramod Damle
Sampat Nikam
Damodar Gaikwad
Vasant Khedekar
Sadhana Bhosle
Soundtrack
The music is composed by Ram Kadam and lyrics by Jagdish Khebudkar and Dada Kondke.
Track listing
Remakes
Bangaarada Panjara (Kannada) Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rahta Hain (Hindi) Mayer Anchal (Bengali)