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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = The Awakener<br />
| director =D. B. Rana<br />
| image = Meher Baba 1941 2.jpg<br />
| producer =[[Jagat Murari]]<br />
| narrator = [[Roshan Taneja]]<br />
| editing = D. B. Rana<br />
| music = Chandavarkar<br>Rajinder Gandhi<br />
| starring =[[Meher Baba]]<br>Eruch Jessawala<br>[[Louis van Gasteren]]<br />
| cinematography =<br />
| released = {{Film date|1969}}<br />
| runtime =118 min<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = <br />
| distributor = [[Films Division of India]]<br />
| budget =<br />
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'''''The Awakener''''' is a 1969 Indian anthropological [[Ethnography|ethnographic film]] on [[Meher Baba]], produced by [[Jagat Murari]], Mushir Ahmad and distributed by [[Films Division of India]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0wY6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Murari,+Jagat%22 ''1952 Asian Film Directory and Who's who''], p. 372</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eoNmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Murari,+Jagat%22 ''Who's who in India 1986''], Guide Publications., p. 289</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BIJmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Murari,+Jagat%22 ''India Who's who''], INFA Publications, 2003, p. 387</ref> The [[stock footage]] starring Meher Baba, and Eruch Jessawala is directed, compiled, and edited by D. B. Rana with narration by [[Roshan Taneja]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/700814.pdf|title=The Awakener – Meher Baba, Jagat Murari productions |access-date=24 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-18-ca-436-story.html|title=MOVIE REVIEW : 'Meher Baba's' Makers Use Slo-Mo Religiously|first=Chris|last=Willman|date=18 August 1989|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><br />
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==Background==<br />
The film footage was taken by Lud Dimpfl, Aneece Hassen, Jehangir Sukhadwala, and Mani Irani.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/674313|title=Meher Baba’s Silent Semiotic Output|first=José|last=Sanjinés|date=24 January 2014|journal=Signs and Society|volume=2|issue=S1|pages=S121–S159|via=CrossRef|doi=10.1086/674313|url-access=subscription}}</ref> It was featured at the [[4th International Film Festival of India|4th IFFI]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZVwsvQAec|title=The Awakener: a 1969 Baba Movie|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref name="cfs">{{cite web | url=http://cfsindia.org/tag/jagat-murari/ | title=Zoo Manners | publisher=CFS India | date=23 November 2011 | accessdate=11 June 2012 | archive-date=18 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818194351/http://cfsindia.org/tag/jagat-murari/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> The film also features the footage of Dutch film maker [[Louis van Gasteren]] interviewing Meher Baba.<ref name="auto"/><br />
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== External links ==<br />
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*{{YouTube|id=WoZVwsvQAec|title=''The Awakener, 1969''}}<br />
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