Sane Guruji wrote Shyamchi Aai which has impressed many generations. Acharya P K Atre made a movie based on this book.The screenplay selected playful incidents for the first half, and let the melodrama take over in the second half. On March 6, 2015 Shyamchi Aai will complete 62 years. It was made in 1953. The movie was awarded the President’s Gold Medal. Madhav Vaze enacted the role of Shyam. Acharya Atre selected judiciously the incidents out of 42 nights which the book had described. The selection took care that the movie does not become preachy. Atre took an independent view of Shyam’s childhood. Atre was loyal to the book while writing the screenplay and dialogue. The atmosphere reflected the family life style of the 1950s and 1960s. The movie had a moral anchoring.Vanmalabai is another actor in the movie. Shankar Rao Kulkarni, Saraswati Bodas, Prabodhankar Thackeray, Damu Anna Joshi contributed a great deal. Vasant Desai was the music director. Rele was the cinematographer. The director was Acharya P K Atre himself.