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Ek Gaon Barah Bhangadi! (English translation: One village 12 scandals!) is a Marathi Indian black and white film released in 1968. The film is produced and directed by Anant Govind Mane under his banner "Chetana Chitra". The storyline of the film is based on a traditional theatre form called Tamasha. The film has many popular songs composed by Ram Kadam.

Plot
Patil (Dada Salvi) is the Sarpanch (Village Head) of Thagvadi village. He along with his cronies Zele Anna (Nilu Phule) & Gadwe Anna (Bhalchandra Kulkarni) visit Tamasha of Phulabai( Jayshree Gadkar). Impressed with her performance they invite her to their village to perform on the occasion of independence day i.e. 15 Aug.

Patil is a well-endowed man & controls the co-op sugar mill of the village. He also controls a group of tribal mercenaries who do odd jobs for him. He is corrupt & uses the money of co-op society for personal use & shares the loot with his cronies. This is opposed by the master of the school who is also the treasurer of the co-op society. Another young lady teacher of the school is harassed by the lewd eyes of the men in the village & complains both to Patil & master. Patil tries to flirt with her, but the master assures her that he would accompany her on daily basis from her home to school. On returning home Patil has a heated argument with his elder sister over the inheritance of their ancestral land. Late in the night, he decides to kill his sister & the next day he pushes her from the roof. This is witnessed by the master. Patil kills him as well. In order to cover up his crimes, he fetches Gawade Anna & Zele Anna. Gawade Anna with help of mercenaries kidnaps the lady teacher & imprison her in his basement. Later Zele Anna spreads a rumour that Master has abducted the teacher & stole Rs. 25,000 from society's treasury. Later Patil distributes them Rs. 500/each of the 25,000 they pocketed from the society's account.

This incident is anonymously reported to a senior police officer of the region. He assigns Inspector Shirke to investigate the matter specificiallt Patil. On the train to Thagwadi, coincidently he is accompanied by Phula. He saves her life from a dacoit mid-journey & asks for a favour in return. He accompanies her troupe as a musician so he would get an opportunity to investigate his case. After their program is over, Patil requests Phula to extend her stay for private performances. She agrees on the insistence of Inspector Shirke. Later Patil finds Inspector Shirke suspicious & asks one of his men to keep an eye on him.

Inspector Shirke tries to get a sense of the situation by interacting with villagers, but largely unable to make out anything. At a performance at Patil's home, they hear shrieks from the teacher who is imprisoned in the basement. The next day with help of Phula, Shirke is able to search the premise of Patil for evidence & find the society's currency bag (which Patil had earlier stolen after killing Master) he is now able to unwind the plot. Shirke concludes that Master is murdered by Patil & the woman who was yelling in the basement must be the teacher. Later they have a private performance with Patil & his cronies. In a bid for upmanship to get closer to Phulabai, Zele Anna threatens to spill the beans & Patil leaves in anger. Shirke motivates Zele Anna to speak up to which he replies that he should come to his office the next day & he would spill all the beans. The next day Zele Anna is found hanged in his office.

Shirke makes a plan to test his theory. He finds a picture of Master & sends it to his senior officer. His team finds a man with similar features & with the help of a makeup artist, they create a lookalike of the Master. He is then brought to the village for an identification parade. Patil & Gawade are scared & confirm the identity with the police. Shirke anticipates some action from Patil & spies on his home. The mercenaries check the corpse at the burial site & give confirmation to Patil that the Master is indeed dead. Shirke is caught by Patil & Phula somehow manages to escape his clutches. In order to rescue Shirke, her troupe stages a tamasha in the village & she starts narrating the mystery of Master's murder in her song. Enraged Patil intervenes & shoots her dead & Patil is caught by the police red-handed.

Cast

 * Jayshree Gadkar as Anu
 * Arun Sarnaik as Inspector Shirke
 * Dada Salvi as Patil
 * Barchi Bahaddar
 * Usha Chavan
 * Maya Jadhav
 * Baby Manik as young Anu
 * Baby Manik as young Anu

Music
Composed by Vasant Pawar, the famous lavanis and other songs are written by Jagadish Khebudkar and sung by Balakraam, Suman Kalyanpur and Sulochana Chavan.