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Raatra Aarambh is a film of genre Drama with Dilip Prabhavalkar
Raatra Aarambh (1999)
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Add to a movie listRatra Aarambh (Devnagari: रात्र आरंभ) is a thriller Marathi movie directed by Ajay Phansekar released in India in 1999 starring Dilip Prabhavalkar as an old man suffering from split personality. This is the first Marathi movie on Paranoid Schizophrenia
The story revolves around the two worlds inhabited by Prabhakar Phadke / Vasudeo Balwant Thombre - Dilip Prabhavalkar - an ordinary senior citizen who is an avid reader of crime fiction. Living his normal life by day, he is transformed into his fantasy world by night. This is the world in which he imagines himself to be a blind industrialist who is the target of conspiracies of his near and dear ones. This schizophrenia leads to a tragedy in his real life and he ends up at a mental asylum where the psychiatrists try to separate the fantasy from reality so that he can lead his normal life once again. The film has a powerful performance by Dilip Prabhawalkar in the central role. Prabhavalkar won the Filmfare award for his role.
A similar South Indian movie, called "Aparichit", was released on this subject.
Actors
Dilip Prabhavalkar
(Prabhakar Phadke)
Anand Abhyankar
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