He left home in 1904 to participate in India's freedom movement by joining Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's Abhinav Bharat Society.

He returned to Satara in 1913 and worked with Dattātraya Baḷavanta Pārasanīs (co-writer with Charles Augustus Kincaid), who wrote "a history of the Maratha people".

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.

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.

Condemned by all the members of her family except 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.

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.

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.

Intent on getting a scoop, the reporter hires private investigator John Blaylock to help her find out just what information is being handed over.

When the aerospace executive turns up dead after an apparent suicide, the investigators realise that some very big secrets are being kept by some very important people.

This film is also important for introducing several talented artists such as Durga Khote and Shanta Apte to a film-hungry audience.

When Raja Krantivarma bans this sacrifice, his very own Rajguru rebels and incites a group of religious zealots to assassinate him