Pathik ( Kakasaheb Gadgil)
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Channel: Films Division · 2013 · News & Politics
Director: Jabbar Patel Year: 1988 An autobiographical on Kakasaheb alias NV Gadgil, a freedom fighter and a minister in the Union Cabinet. Gadgil's father worked as a porter and then as a clerk in the railways at Malhargarh. Soon after his mother's death he was sent to Siddhatek and then to Pune.As a young boy, Gadgil revered Tilak but later he came under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi. Several times he served prison terms.Kakasaheb was intrumental in building the Congress Bhavan in Pune.As a minister in the Union Cabinet just after independence, he skillfully handled the flood of refugees pouring into India from Pakistan. He devised a master plan for Delhi and built several colonies for the refugees and the Government employees. In 1957,he voluntarily retired from the Governorship of the Punjab and came back to Pune to serve poor people.
