When they got married, he became her parent, looking after her and educating her. “I was very interested in the way their relationship changed over the years. In each of these cities, they faced many troubles as Gopal insisted that his wife is educated. The couple then lived in various cities including Alibaug, Kutch, Serampore and Calcutta. She was born in Pune, grew up in Kalyan and then shifted to Kolhapur after her marriage. Gopal worked in the postal department and was transferred often hence the couple had to travel and shift towns several times. The Marathi film, which stars child actor Bhagyashree Milind as Anandibai and Lalit Prabhakar as Gopalrao Joshee, covers the story from their marriage, the ups and downs in their journey in India and Anandi’s travel to the US and her studies at the medical college.Vidwans says that the short life that Anandibai lived was full of events and drama even before she left for the US. Now, with the directorial venture of Sameer Vidwans, Anandi Gopal, the story will make its silver screen debut. There are two biographies, including Healy Dall's published two years after Anandi's death in 1886, a novel and a play depicting her journey's fictionalized versions. The story of this brief but extraordinary life, Anandi's story and her "eccentric" husband, who went against family, society, and financial pressure to take the banned journey to "Christian land" and accomplish what the couple desperately wanted, attracted storytellers ' attention. Anandi Gopal is more of a love story than a biopic of a husband's struggle to educate his wife and her response to becoming the first Indian Female Doctor.Ī widowed Gopalrao Joshi is a well educated man during British era.He gets proposal of marrying a young girl Yamuna,they get married and she is renamed as Anandi and her husband only priority is she should get well educated which is against society.When Anandi fails to to learn Gopalrao leaves her with parents and returns after few months in that period Anandi starts to learn basic education when Gopalrao returns he is happy to see what Anandi has learned.Anandi gives birth to a baby who passes away soon and she decides that she will take good education and become a Doctor to save lives of other people. In times when, at almost every forum and podium, gender equality and feminism are raised, a couple in the 1800s practiced and fought for these very ideas. The Marathi film, which stars child actor Bhagyashree Milind as Anandibai and Lalit Prabhakar as Gopalrao Joshee, covers the story from their marriage, the ups and downs in their journey in India and Anandi’s travel to the US and her studies at the medical college.īiopic of one of the earliest Indian female physicians Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi. Kishor Arora | Akash Chawla | Shareen Mantri Kedia | Arunava Sengupta Submit (If you don't want to display your name, please leave it blank.)
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