Watching Natsamrat makes one feel reassured in the existence of quality cinema sans the meaningless song-dance nonsence that flimmakers and a sizeable portion of the audiences today are so fond of.
Natsamrat presents Nana Patekar in the ultimate role-that of a thespian(GANPAT RAMCHANDRA BELWARKAR). An actor par excellence. Nana does complete justice to the role. The flim is interspersed with dialogues and soliloquies from classic plays like Julius Caesar.
With human crisis at its core and brilliant performance at the periphery. Natsamrat is the inner journey of an actor.
As an actor. Ganpatrao did full justice to the characters he played on screen, his immense popularity and fame is proof of it.
However, what does he do when real life crises strick him? when his dear confident and companion dies in his aams? His beloved wife breathes her last in front of his eyes? His children abandon him? Does he face the crudity of his fate with the same as his character on stage?