Veer Savarkar (film)

• Shailendra Gaur as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
• Surendra Rajan as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• Navni Parihar as Mai Savarkar
• Sushmeena Parihar as Savarkar's son
• Mrinal Kulkarni
• Pankaj Berry as Madan Lal Dhingra
• Ram Awana
• Rohitash Gaud as Ganesh Damodar Savarkar
• Arun Shekhar
• Tom Alter
• Bob Christo
• Sunil Shende
• Arun Bakshi
• Supriya Karni
• Madhusudan Tamhane

This film was produced by Savarkar Darshan Prathisthan under the president-ship of Sudhir Phadke.

A Times of India story dated 18 September 2001 quotes Prabhakar Mone; "more than 10000 people contributed from Rs. Five to Rs. Fifty lakh. Four years back, our present prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself helped in raising Rs. 3 million for the movie by giving a lecture in the US... Prominent singers like Asha Bhosle, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi and Anup Jalota also aided in fund-raising."{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-09-18/news-interviews/27251740_1_savarkar-birth-place-bhagur-andaman|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104051653/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-09-18/news-interviews/27251740_1_savarkar-birth-place-bhagur-andaman|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-04|title=First ever film on Veer Savarkar to be released|date=18 September 2001|accessdate=9 June 2012|work=The Times of India|location=Mumbai}}

The muhurat shot of the film was taken in 1990, changes to the team resulted in a delayed completion, by 15 September 1998, a fresh muhurat shot taken under director Ram Gabale who was the eighth's person chosen for the job, and script-writer D. M. Mirasdar who was the tenth script writer engaged. The other directors involved were Rajdatta, Basu Bhattacharya, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Ved Rahi, Pradeep Dikshit and Prabhakar Pendharkar. Script-writers earlier working on the project were G. R. Kamat, Ved Rahi, Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Vasant Deo and Shrinivas Joshi.{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/Storyold/53983/|title=Historic delay hits Savarkar film|date=30 September 1998|work=The Indian Express (Online)|publisher=The Indian Express Limited|access-date=29 May 2012|location=New Delhi}}

It premiered on 16 November 2001, in Mumbai, New Delhi, Nagpur and six other Indian cities. On 28 May 2012 its Gujarati language version was released by the chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. This version was released on DVD format.

Anjum N reviewing the film for Rediff.com notes that though the film took a long time to produce this time lag is not evident. He also mentions the film publicity brochures that declare the film as "financed 'by the people'".{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2001/nov/30veer.htm|title=A portrait of a patriot|last=N|first=Anjum|date=30 November 2001|work=rediff MOVIES|publisher=Rediff.com|accessdate=9 June 2012|location=Mumbai}}

The film had a silver jubilee run at Plaza cinema, Mumbai and Pune's Prabhat cinema.{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-05-27/pune/27135240_1_hindi-film-vinayak-damodar-savarkar-bhagat-singh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214110121/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-05-27/pune/27135240_1_hindi-film-vinayak-damodar-savarkar-bhagat-singh|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-12-14|title=War cries echo at film bash|last=Chaware|first=Dilip|date=27 May 2002|accessdate=9 June 2012|work=The Times of India|location=Mumbai}}

The Government of Goa, gave the film a "tax-free status"{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/Veer-Savarkar-film-given-tax-free-status/articleshow/20692353.cms|title=Veer Savarkar film given tax free status|last=Kumar|first=Vidyut|date=30 August 2002|work=The Times of India (online)|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.|accessdate=29 May 2012|location=Mumbai}}

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