Pinjara (film) Pinjara (film) Pinjara (; "Cage"), (pronounced as pinj-ra) is a 1972 Marathi film, directed by V. Shantaram, starring Shriram Lagoo and Sandhya in lead roles. In 1972, the film was also released in Hindi with the same title. Set in Tamasha folk musical theatre of Maharashtra, the film is about a morally righteousness school teacher, Lagoo, who wants to reform a Tamasha performer, played by Sandhya, but ends up falling in love with her. It was an adaptation of Josef von Sternberg's German film, "The Blue Angel" ("Der Blaue Engel", 1930) starring Marlene Dietrich, which itself was based on Heinrich
Marlene Dietrich Cukor, who made ten films together over a much longer period but which were not created for Hepburn the way the last six von Sternberg/Dietrich collaborations were. Dietrich's first film after the end of her partnership with Sternberg was Frank Borzage's "Desire" (1936), a commercial success that gave Dietrich an opportunity to try her hand at romantic comedy. Her next project, "I Loved a Soldier" (1936), ended in shambles when the film was scrapped several weeks into production due to script problems, scheduling confusion and the studio's decision to fire the director, Ernst Lubitsch. Extravagant offers lured Dietrich away from