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There are many stories about it on the internet and some books/magazines. Here is what Sidharth Bhatia writes in his book about the Patels:

"There were rumors that Shanta Apte had come to his office and landed a few blows on him with a large stick for something he had written-at least two writers, manto and KA Abbas, mentioned this in their books...."

Here is a newspaper account in the Indian Express (Madras Edition), August 23, 1938.

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in Nata (1955).

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When capturing stills from the films for your books, you run into all kinds of things. Here is very poor boy with the lower waist band for underwear, while his mother is laughing at Sita, who could mot carry a water pot properly and broke it. Later Laxman came and helped poor Sita.

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