Narayan Hari Apte

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: नारायण हरी आपटे), popularly known as Nanasaheb Apte (July 11, 1889 - November 14, 1971) was a Marathi

Marathi people

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popular novelist & writer of advice books and editor from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

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. Narayan Hari Apte — who, incidentally is neither a son nor the literary heir of Hari Narayan Apte

Hari Narayan Apte

Hari Narayan Apte was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Through his writings, he provided an eminent example to future Marathi fiction writers in respect of writing effective novels and short stories which faithfully reflect different aspects of contemporary society...

Early life and education

Apte was born on July 11, 1889 in the village of Samdoli in Sangli District

Sangli district

Sangli district is a district of Maharashtra state in west-central India. Sangli city is the district headquarters. The district is 24.51% urban. Sangli and Miraj are the largest cities. The industrial town of Kirloskarwadi is also located in the Sangli District...

of Maharashtra.

After finishing his 7th grade education in Samdoli and Satara

Satara

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, he left his home in 1905 to participate in India’s freedom movement by joining Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

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's Abhinav Bharat Society

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He traveled extensively throughout northern India; and while traveling, he gained knowledge of Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Nepali, and English languages. In 1939, he met K. B. Hedgewar

K. B. Hedgewar

Keshav Baliram Hedgewar was the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh . Hedgewar founded the RSS in Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1925, with the intention of promoting the concept of the Hindu nation...

, the founder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

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, and joined that organization. He also participated in the 1942 Quit India Movement

Quit India Movement

The Quit India Movement , or the August Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. Gandhi hoped to bring the British government to the negotiating table...

Career

Apte worked for some time as a co-editor of Kirloskar Khabar (किर्लोस्कर खबर). He founded a book publishing house, Ajinkyatara Pustkalay, in 1913. He started a literary and political journal named "Alhad" (आल्हाद) in 1915 and later, another magazine named Madhukar (मधुकर). He started a printing press, Shriniwas Mudranalay, in 1920, and he founded the publishing house "Apte & Co" in 1924.

Apte wrote over providing advice on ways to experiencing happy family life. He also published two collections of his short stories. He propagated traditional Hindu

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values and beliefs through his writings. His first short story was published in Karamanuk (करमणूक) magazine which was then edited by Hari Narayan Apte

Hari Narayan Apte

. His first novel Ajinkyatara (अजिंक्यतारा) was published in 1909. He wrote his last novel Javanancha Jiwandharma (जवानांचा जीवनधर्म) in 1962.

Baburao Painter

Baburao Painter

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in 1925, introduced Apte to Marathi film industry, and Apte wrote screenplays for Marathi films mostly by adapting his own short stories and novels.His most famous works came in the 1930s, Prabhat for Shantaram at the Film Society. He also worked with directors Datta Dharmadhikari, Shantaram Athavale and Dinkar Patil.

Apte helped Dadasaheb Phalke

Dadasaheb Phalke

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the father of Indian cinema...

during his bad days. He stayed with family at NH Apte's residence at Korgaon village.

Later life

His 80th birthday was celebrated at Koregaon with A batch of poets and writers from Poona went to Koregaon at October end to felicitate the veteran novelist, Shri Narayan Hari Apte, who completed eighty years in July 1969.

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By Dr. Soudamini Choudhari

N.H.Apte's literature shows his positive attitude towards life, in turn the strong charactres he depicted.His literature value lies in his thoughts,that's why today's society also needs to know it.

Novels

Mainly he wrote social, advisory novels and historical novels.
The following is a of Apte's novels:

Ajinkyatara (अजिंक्यतारा)
Pahatepurwicha Kalokh (पहाटेपूर्वीचा काळोख)
Bhagyashri (भाग्यश्री)
Hrudayachi Shrimanti (हृदयाची श्रीमंती)
Manawi Asha (मानवी आशा)
Na Patanari Goshta (न पटणारी गोष्ट)
Pach Te Pach (पाच ते पाच)
Rajputache Bhishma (राजपुताचे भीष्म)
Waiting Room (वेटिंग रूम)
Ekti (एकटी)
Punjabacha Ladhawayya Sikh (पंजाबचा लढवय्या सीख)
Javanancha Jiwandharma (जवानांचा जीवनधर्म)
Total Novels List in Marathi lised from http://granthalaya.org
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अजरामर
अजिंक्य तारा - 1909
अपेक्षा
अमरसंग्राम
अमेरिका पुर्व खंड
अर्वाचिन रामराज्य
आनंद मंदिर
आपण आहो माणसे
आम्ही दोघे
आयुष्याचा पाया - 1946
आराम
आराम - विराम - 1934
उमज पडेल तर - 1939
एकटी - 1945
ऐरणीवर
कड्याच्या टोकावर
कथा कौमुदी
कर्मगति
कर्मयोगी
कुठे आहे तो देव
कुर्यात सदा मंगलम - 1949
केवळ नवलाई
कोंडा-कणी
कोणी कोणाचे नव्हे
गड आला पण सिंह गेला
गणपतराव
गृह सौख्य - 1931
ग्रीष्मागमन
चंद्रगुप्त
जवानांचा जीवनधर्म
जाऊबाई
ते आणि मी
त्या अबला होता
दिवाकर दृष्टी
दुरंगी दुनिया
न पटणारी गोष्ट
पहाटे पूर्वीचा काळोख - 1926
पांच ते पांच
पाणी आणि शेवाळ
पिशाचसाधन
पुरुषाचे भाग्य
फसगत
बनारसी बोरे - 1932
भाग्यश्री
भुरळ
मानवी आशा
मी वाट पाहीन
याला कारण शिक्षण
रजपुतांचा भीष्म - 1919
रत्नगुंफा
लांछीत चंद्रमा - 1913
लोकमित्र
वेटींगरुम
वैभवाच्या कोंदणांत
व्यवसाय पत्रे.
संगदोश
संधिकाल
संसारांत पडण्यापूर्वी
समर्थ शिष्य
साजणी.
सायंकाळी 5 ते प्रभातकाली 5
सुखाचा मूलमंत्र - 1924
सुगरणीचा संसार
सुमन गंध
सोन्याचे बिल्वर.
हंसा आणि रुसा
हदयाची श्रीमंती

Advice books

The following is a partial list of Apte's advice books:

Sukhacha Mulmantra (सुखाचा मूलमंत्र)
Gruhasaukhya (गृहसौख्य)
Ayushyacha Paya (आयुष्याचा पाया)
Kuryat Sada Mangalam (कुर्यात सदा मंगलं)

Filmography

1925: Sawakari Pash (Director: Baburao Painter, Producer: Maharashtra Film Company
Maharashtra Film Company
Maharashtra Film Company was an Indian film production company, established by Baburao Painter in Kolhapur. Established in 1919, it was a silent film studio, which was a pioneer in Maharashtra and Marathi cinema, under the patronage of the Sahu Maharaj, the Maharaja of Kolhapur. It released the...

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1925: Rana Hamir (Director: Baburao Painter Producer: Maharashtra Film Company)
1933: Sinhagad. Baburao Painter directed the silent film Sinhgad for the Maharashtra Film Company.
1934: Amrut-manthan. Amrut-manthan was the first Indian movie to celebrate Silver Jubilee.
1936: Rajput Ramani (Director: Keshavrao Dhaiber, Producer: Prabhat Film Company
Prabhat Film Company
Prabhat Film Company popularly known as Prabhat Films was an Indian film production company and film studios, formed in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India in 1929, towards the end of silent films' era, by the noted film director V. Shantaram, along with V.G. Damle, K.R. Dhaiber, S. Fatelal and S.B...
1937: Kunku
1937 :1.Duniya Na Mane
Duniya Na Mane
Duniya Na Mane is a 1937 Hindi social classic directed by V. Shantaram, and based on the Marathi novel, "Na Patnari Goshta” by Narayan Hari Apte, who also wrote film’s screenplay...

2.Duniya Na Mane 3. Duniya Na Mane
1937: Pratibha (Director: Baburao Painter)
1937: Gangawataran(Director: Madhukar Bavdekar)
1938: Dhruwa Kumar
1948: Bhagyarekha (Producer: K.L.Tapre, Director: Shantaram Aathavle)
1951: Kunkwacha Dhani (Director: Datta Dharmadhikari)
1954: Sansar Karaychay Mala
1956: Sajni
1960: Umaj Padel Tar (Director: Dinkar D. Patil
Dinkar D. Patil
Dinkar D. Patil was a prominent Marathi film director, scriptwriter, and dialogue writer during the Golden Era of the Marathi Film Industry. He directed, wrote scripts and dialogue for more than 60 Marathi films. He also directed two Hindi Films-Mandir and Gharbar...

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Savkari Pash

Marathi filmmaker Baburao Painter directs this realist melodrama about the trials and tribulations of colonial India's underclass. A capacious moneylender looking to make some quick money by forging property deeds evicts a peasant farmer. Forced from his idyllic rural home, the peasant -- along with his family -- moves to the crowded, squalid city to find a job in a mill plant. The film ends with the farmer turned worker negotiating a crowded street while the moneylender naps alongside his safe. This film is hailed as one of the finest examples of Indian silent cinema

Duniya Na Mane(Hindi)/Kunku (Marathi)

Duniya Na Mane is a 1937 Hindi social classic based on the Marathi novel, Na Patnari Goshta (न पटणारी गोष्ट) by Apte, who also wrote the film's screenplay.

The movie was remade in Marathi as Kunku.

Kunku is the story of a young woman who refuses to accept her marriage with an older man. However, this presents its own problems for the young woman who is now widowed and subject to widowhood, a severe punishment in orthodox Hindu society. The film ends with the husband killing himself to set his wife free of him. Shantaram tells his story as realistically as possible, with background music limited to natural sounds. It was shown at the Venice International Film FestivalThe storyline revolves around a young woman, Nirmala, rebelling against her arranged marriage to a much older widower, Kakasaheb, according to a social practice fairly prevalent in India until the second quarter of the 20th century.

After a long discussion with his widowed daughter Sushila, who is roughly Nirmala's age, Kakasaheb agrees to the only way out—suicide—since divorces were not possible in those times. Sushila also provides a forceful feminist speech to the young bride. Just before committing suicide, Kakasaheb implores his would-be wife to find a younger husband.

An interesting aspect of Duniya Na Mane is its characterization: The widower is not a villain. He has acted without questioning the prevalent custom of his society and is now faced with the tragic consequences of that act.

Bhagyarekha (Marathi)

Bhagyarekha is the story of Manik, a young Gandhian freedom fighter who has a child out of wedlock. Condemned by all the members of her family expect her mother, she battles on steadfastly, even after her lover dies in a police encounter leaving her to fend for herself. The film, directed by Shantaram Athavale, also stars Baburao Pendharkar, and harks back to an era when Marathi cinema tackled unconventional subjects. Keshavrao Bhole composed its music and Narayan Hari Apte wrote the songs, screenplay and dialogues.

Rajput Ramani (Marathi)

Rajput Ramani is an adventure movie. The movie shows a medieval Rajput court. The legendary warrior Mansingh (Phatak) is the nation's strong man but he is cordially hated even by his own people. Claiming to have been offended by Taramati (Tarkhad), he insists to her eminent father only a marriage (on terms insulting to her) can placate him. He becomes a dictator imprisoning large numbers of people, and eventually Taramati's father, also in prison, leads a popular revolt, threatening to kill his son-in-law.

Dhaiber Keshavrao directs this adventure tale set in the medieval Rajput court. The Famed legendary warrior Mansingh (Nanasaheb Phatak) is the nation's strong man, and is universally respected because of this tremendous strength, but quietly loathed by one and all for his bullying, bumptious manner. Claiming to have been insulted by the beautiful Taramati (Nalini Tarkhad), Mansingh demands to her wealthy father that he marry the beautiful Taramati under terms that are less than agreeable to her.

Her father has little choice but to comply silently without protest. Mansingh soon evolves into an iron-fisted autocrat --He becomes a tyrant imprisoning large number of the population, including Taramati's father. The old man eventually leads a rebellion that almost kills the muscle-bound tyrant, but Taramati intercedes on behalf of her husband at the last moment.

Umaj Padel Tar (Marathi)

On the eve of a big US-Japan trade summit, a reporter gets a hot tip that the Japanese-American head of a big aerospace firm will be selling trade secrets to a Japanese contact. Intent on getting a scoop, the reporter hires private investigator John Blaylock to help her find out just what information is being handed over. In the course of snooping, the pair are discovered, but not before they learn that the Japanese contact is a member of the Yakuza. When the aerospace executive turns up dead after an apparent suicide, the investigators realize that some very big secrets are being kept by some very important people.

Amritmanthan

Amritmanthan, which was produced and directed by V. Shantaram. Shantaram used this film to comment subtly on life and times in contemporary society too. He was the first director to use a telephoto lens for his film Amrit Manthan (1934). It uses several film techniques from German Expressionist cinema. Apart from all its notable achievements, this film is best remembered for its shot of the close-up of a priest’s right eye. This film is also important for introducing several talented artistes such as Durga Khote and Shanta Apte to a film-hungry audience.

It tells the story of a very old society where Buddhism goes against orthodox ritualistic practices. This film was set in the Buddhist age and makes a strong statement against the practice of making human sacrifices. Avanti Nagar residents worship Devi Maa Chandika and sacrifice humans and animals to appease her. When Raja Krantivarma bans this sacrifice, his very own Rajguru rebels and incites a group of religious zealots to assassinate him

External links

So many cinemas: the motion picture in India, Bhagwan Das Garga Eminence Designs, page 34
N. H. Apate Vyakti Aani Wangmay
Narayan Hari Apte in Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 1 von Amaresh Datta

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