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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Balidan<br />
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| director = Naval Gandhi<br />
| producer = Orient Pictures Corporation<br />
| writer = [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br>Jamshed Ratnagar (screenplay)<br />
| based_on = Bisarjan (play)<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = {{ubl|[[Master Vithal]]|[[Ruby Myers|Sulochana]]|[[Zubeida]]|[[Sultana (actress)|Sultana]]}}<br />
| music = <br />
| cinematography = Naval Bhatt<br />
| editing = <br />
| distributor = <br />
| studio = Orient Pictures Corporation<br />
| released = {{film date|1927}}<br />
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| country = India<br />
| language = Silent film<br />
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'''''Balidan''''', also called '''''Sacrifice''''', is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1927|1927]] [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[silent film]] directed by Naval Gandhi and based on a play by [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|last1=Crow|first1=Jonathan|title=Balidan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/249810/Balidan/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722181305/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/249810/Balidan/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 July 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]|date=2015|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> It was produced by Orient Pictures Corporation.<ref name=Gomolo>{{cite web|title=Sacrifice|url=http://www.gomolo.com/sacrifice-movie/19877|website=gomolo.com|publisher=Gomolo|accessdate=30 April 2015|archive-date=16 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716195521/http://www.gomolo.com/sacrifice-movie/19877|url-status=dead}}</ref> Balidan is cited as one of the top ten lost films of Indian Cinema by P. K. Nair.<ref name=PKNair>{{cite web|last1=Nair|first1=P. K.|title=India's top ten lost films|url=http://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/indias-top-10-lost-films-compiled-by-p-k-nair/|website=filmheritagefoundation.co.in|publisher=Film Heritage Foundation|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> Hailed as "an excellent and truly Indian film" by The Indian Cinematograph Committee, 1927–28,<ref name=FilmHeritage>{{cite web|title=Balidan (Sacrifice) 1927|url=http://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/balidan-sacrifice-1927-108-mins/|website=filmheritagefoundation.co.in|publisher=Film Heritage Foundation|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> ''Balidan'' was used by them as one of the films to "show how 'serious' Indian cinema could match Western standards".<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen2014">{{cite book|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|author3=Professor of Critical Studies Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA250|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9|page=250}}</ref><br />
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The film starred the then popular cast of [[Master Vithal]], [[Ruby Myers|Sulochana]], [[Zubeida]], [[Sultana (actress)|Sultana]], Jal Khambata and Jani Babu.<ref name=citwf>{{cite web|title=Balidan |url=http://www.citwf.com/film28196.htm |website=citwf.com |publisher=Alan Goble |accessdate=30 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717084033/http://www.citwf.com/film28196.htm |archivedate=17 July 2015}}</ref><br />
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A social-reformist costume drama film, written by Tagore in 1887,<ref name=RajadhyakshaWillemen2014 /> ''Balidan'' was set in the fictional kingdom of Tippera, and involved clashes between a progressive-minded King and a "tradition-bound priest".<ref name=NYT /> The film was stated to be commercially successful.<ref name=FilmHeritage /><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Master Vithal]]<br />
* Sulochana ([[Ruby Myers]])<br />
* [[Zubeida]] as Aparna<br />
* [[Sultana (actress)|Sultana]]<br />
* Jal Khambata<br />
* Jani Babu<br />
* J. Makhijani<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id =0214522|title=Balidan (1927)}}<br />
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