Ramchandra Gopal or Dadasaheb Torney

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A young man of 22 made a feature film in 1912 and had it released on the 18th of May, 1912, at the Coronation Cinema

Pundalik was the name of the film.

Pundalik is who brought Vithal to Pandharpur

there was a day in the future when the shabby race over coming first, (that was equally a crucial way of being remembered) was more forgotten, and Dhundiraj Phalke s Tukaram and Ramachandra Gopal s Pundalik were part of a busy afternoon screening programme at the Film Appreciation in Pune. The smell of the rain has seeped into air and seedpodsare everywhere on the roads around NFAI. Satish Bahadur is lifting the rims his white pajama cylinders. Mr. Nair in blacks and grey s with the color of a man in his prime at this sideburns,is all ready waiting by the main screening room gate. Students are moving in, talking, opining, not sure of what they think or feel, the corners of their young eyes tinged with a brush dipped romance. The older ones are easier as the weather toss is an old acquaintance, they recognize her and find themselves sometimes shaking their heads is despair as she shakes them about they are quieter this afternoon. The young .the younger ones had so much talk trying to not talk of feeling like leaves carried along.Ramachandra Gopal felt content- this was the correct programme to show their films together. He looked around hoping some locals would also come, braving the rains. He did not want to make the preliminary speech setting things in order or talking of those who had put them in order. He looked around for Phalke, he might not come at all. Probably would not. He saw a white pajaamaaed man walking towards him through what were now sheets of rain. His eyes widened for a second