Devi Ahilya Bai

Directed by Jayoo Patwardhan and Nachiket Patwardhan

With Shabana Azmi, Mallika Prasad, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Bharati Jaffrey and Aishwarya Shidhaye

Ahilyabai was born on May 31, 1725 in the village of Chaundi, in the present-day Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Her father, Mankoji Shinde, was the patil of the village, a member of the proud Dhangar community. Women then did not go to school, but Ahilyabai's father taught her to read and write.