Portion of a song of Somnath aarti is presented in the video above

Ahmedabad, 20 May 2012

Mahee production‘s Gujarati film Veer Hamirji Gohil, Somnath ni sakhate will release on 25 May in major theatres of Ahmedabad, Rajkot and other parts of Saurashtra and Gujarat. The film is based on Zaverchand Meghani, Kalapi and Jaymalla Parmar’s writings on Gujarati bravery icon of medieval era, Veer Hamirsinhji Gohil.

Hamirsinhji Gohil was a young brave man who attempted to prevent Shri Somnath Mandir with his small team of brave youths, when Islamic Jehadis came to destroy it.

Shri Hamirsinhji Gohil’s grand statue is located on the front side of Shri Somnath Mandir, while his temple is located inside the campus of Shri Somnath mandir.

Produced by America based NRI Gujarati Bhagirath Joshi and co produced by Chintan Pathak and Maulik Pathak, the film story is written by Dipak Vyas. The film is going to release on 25 May in Gujarati. However same film will be released later in Hindi and English too in an attempt to bring this Gujarati bravery icon to wider audience.

It is for the first time that late Zaverchand Meghani’s family has permitted any film producer to use famous song ‘Kasumbi no rang’ in his film. In the film Veer Hamirji, the song is presented in voice of Kirtidan Gadhvi.

Film’s premier will be held on 24 May in Rajkot.

Producer Bhagirath Joshi
Co producer: Chintankumar Pathak, Maulikkumar Pathak
Director Nilesh Indu Maruti Mohite
Chief Assistant Director: Nilesh Panchal
Assistant Director: Priyank Prajapati, Anil Parmar
Story: Dipak Vyas
Screen play: Maulik Pathak, Nilesh Mohite
Dialogues: Deven Shah
Camera: Manojkumar Zala, Jetsi Muliyasia
Music: Samir Raval
Background music: Akash Shah
Songs: Takhdan Algari, Keshav Rathod bapu
Creative head, supervision: Sandip Pathak