Devi Ahilya Bai

Movie · 2h 23m

Starring Shabana Azmi, Mallika Prasad, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Bharati Jaffrey

Ahilyabai was born on May 31, 1725 in the village of Chaundi, in the present-day Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Her father, Mankoji Shinde, was the patil of the village, a member of the proud Dhangar community. Women then did not go to school, but Ahilyabai's father taught her to read and write.