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Plot. A young boy, Ashok Vhatkar, decides to escape from his boarding school in Satara. Chased by bullies, robbed by drunken gamblers, he starts his journey towards his village in the Kolhapur district.
Based on late Ashok Vhatkar's novel, 72 Miles Ek Pravas depicts the journey of a 13-year-old boy who escapes from a boarding school in Satara and heads towards Kolhapur. On the way, he meets Radhakka and her four children, who are going to Shegaon.
Apr 23, 2016 · Plot: A 13-year-old boy runs away from his boarding school only to undertake a journey from Satara to Kolhapur that will change his approach to life forever. It’s a road trip that tugs at the heart strings and opens your eyes to life in its rawest form.
Beaten to a pulp by the high-castes, the boy is then rescued by a woman Radhakka, who is on her way to Shigaon in the Walwa taluka of Sangli district with her sick infant son Sundarya and three other children. The journey continues as Ashok moves on with his journey and learns the true sorrows of poverty.
In-spite of recalling the battering & spanking from his father & mother (before being put up in the boarding school), he puts in relentless effort to run away from the boarding school just to be with his parents at home & continue his studies in a day school.
Aug 11, 2013 · Set in the ‘60s, and based on a true story of the novelist Ashok Vhatkar, as a 13-year-old boy, who ran away from his boarding school to go back to his parents in Kolhapur, the film is the 72 miles long road trip he traveled all the way back home by foot.
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Sep 10, 2023 · I. n 1997, Sharankumar Limbale, a prolific Dalit Marathi writer best known for his autobiographical work, Akkarmashi (Half-caste), wrote a short story, Aatmakatha (2007: 32-38), about a Dalit youth who sets out to write his autobiography.
