Morya

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Morya (film)

Morya is a Marathi movie and released on 19 August 2011. Directed and produced by Avdhoot Gupte along with Atul Kamble. The movie revolves around the Ganeshotsav festival and amount of political influence involved in the celebration.

Synopsis

In 1893 Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak gave a public form to the celebration of the festival of Ganpati which made it genuinely a people's festival. He saw in the festival, a way of uniting people for a common cause with the aim to bring about political consciousness under the guise of a religious celebration, with freedom for India being the ultimate goal.

In the metro city of Mumbai, there are two adjoining chawls, ‘GaneshChawl’ and ‘KhatavChawl’. Being situated in prime locations they have been celebrating Ganeshotsav with splendour and devotion for the past 40 years. Being arch rivals that they are, each competes with the other every year and does it's best to prove it's mettle. However, this year will be their last opportunity as the entire locality is being purchased by a builder for re-development, and the following year they would be only one big community during the Ganesh Festival. Each faction pulls out all stops to prove their supremacy.

Morya (Theosophy)

Morya is one of the "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom" within modern Theosophical beliefs. He is one of the Mahatmas who inspired the founding of the Theosophical Society and was engaged in a correspondence with two English Theosophists living in India, A. P. Sinnett and A. O. Hume. The correspondence was published in 1923 by A. Trevor Barker, in the book The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett.

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