Phalke is a changed man when he returns home to Baroda.

Phalke is a changed man when he returns home to Baroda. The family welcomes the prodigal back with love.

After hearing his story, they arrange his marriage to the daughter of Shankar Vasudev Karandikar. Phalke used to know his son during his theatre days.

So Phalke marries Saraswati. She is 13, he is 32. But the face of his first wife haunts him. POONA & TRAVELING FOR THE ASI

In Poona, Phalke’s job requires him to travel across the country, leaving his young wife behind.

His job is to make sketches of excavated sites, drawings that will later help him to design the sets for his films.

For him, it is still a state of recourse. He still has not been able to reconcile the memories of his first wife Kamala, with the reality of his second wife, Saraswati.

But in Prof. Bhandarkar he sees and father figure, and they spend hours in conversation.

They discuss Lord Curzon and his new policies.

During a trip to Karla caves, Phalke again meets Raja Ravi Verma, who has set up a printing press in Lonavala.

On Prof. Bhandarkar’s advice and inspired by the Swadeshi movement, Phalke also decides to set up a printing press at Lonavala, to make reproductions of Raja Ravi Verma paintings.

Malavali was the ideal place to set up a press for Raja Ravi Verma. This was when people were leaving Bombay and running for shelter from the plague.

Phalke and his wife set up their small printing press at Karla caves, engraving the visionary images of Ravi Verma on the stores, from where they multiply on calendars and become household gods.