In April 2025, a biopic on two of India's foremost anti-caste icons became the latest casualty in the country's battle over ...

The latter is the undercurrent of Phule’s ideas ... and rebellion in a bygone era. Savitribai (Patralekhaa) finds more space in this biopic, gaining confidence and courage over the course ...

What Jyotiba Phule and his wife, Savitribai Phule, did for the abolishment of the caste system in India in the late 1800s, apart from fighting for female literacy, cannot- and should not- be ...

Patralekhaa will portray social reformer Savitribai Phule in the upcoming film Phule, starring alongside Pratik Gandhi as Jyotirao Phule. Directed by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, the film explores ...

That is what I wanted for Phule. Patralekhaa (who plays Savitribai) too, is a great actress. She internalises her part completely. I wanted a face that was familiar but not too common, which is ...

Now this biopic on the lives of 19th century social reformers Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and Savitribai Phule, has been opposed by Brahmin groups, leading to the delay in its release. It was earlier ...

imagine how much resistance Jyotiba Phule and Savitribai Phule would have encountered 175 years ago. How difficult it must have been to open and run a school for girls, and to fight for equal ...

Perhaps, that’s why the inspirational story of Jyotirao (Pratik Gandhi) and Savitribai Phule (Patralekhaa) remained off the radar of commercial filmmakers. Known to pick up challenging subjects ...

Director Ananth Narayan Mahadevan delivers a competent effort, capturing the pioneering social reforms led by Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule. The film is a sincere, restrained tribute to India’s ...

NEW DELHI: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Thursday criticised the protests around the film "Phule", a biopic on social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule, questioning why films depicting caste ...