While it does this, the audience is treated to some quality cinematic experience which is enlightening. Got around to watching it last night in orig. Deool deserves to be ranked as a Marathi film political classic, ahead of its time. The stellar cast and in fact every actor deliver their respective characters as though to the manor born. A nondescript village (Mangrul) in what looks very much like a sweeping Satara-esque landscape albeit overgrazed and barren, is the location for this film. A scruffy looking young man Keshya (Girish Kulkarni) on the lookout for his cow Karde, rests in the shade of a solitary tree. He is startled out of his sleepy reverie with a vision of the three headed Lord Dattatreya. Convinced that it is for real, Keshya races back to his village to announce his revelation. Some in the village are convinced, others take a more rational approach such as the respected Anna (Dilip Prabhavalkar) who assures Keshya that his faith may well have allowed him a vision of his God but it would be better to be quiet about it.

The local politician Bhau (Nana Patekar) is encouraged by his MLA boss (Mohan Agashe) to seize this opportunity and make hay while the sun shines. Bhau aided by his supporters - a motley bunch of typical local characters superbly essayed by their respective actors, the lady sarpanch, Bhau's wife, Keshya's girlfriend, the village bhajan mandal and most others, make political and economic capital by building a fancy temple to Lord Dattatreya on the hillock next to the tree where Keshya had his vision, with a special enclosure for the 'holy cow' Karde.

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