Movies by Shahu Modak
Rangalya Ratri Asha
A talented Tabla player is unable to handle his meteoric rise and squanders away his talent and happiness when he finds himself falling for a danseuse even as he beats himself up for ignoring his loving wife. A tragic drama that is also a showcase for Natya Sangeet, Hindustani Classical and folksy Laavani.
Manoos
A love tragedy featuring a policeman, Ganpat (Modak) and a prostitute, Mainal (Hublikar). Ganpat saves Maina from a police raid on a brothel and they fall in love. Her reputation and sense of guilt resist his attempts to rehabilitate her. Ganpat's respectable middle-class mother (Sundarabai) symbolizes all that Maina would like to be, but she is arrested for murdering her evil uncle and refuses Ganpat's offer to release her from prison.
Saint Dnyaneshwar
It's the story of a boy who finds enlightenment by experiencing religious hipocrisy and dogmatism. Dnyaneshwar liberated the "divine knowledge" locked in the Sanskrit language to bring that knowledge into Prakrit (Marathi) and made it available to the common man.