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Director
  
Goutam Ghose

Duration
  

Music director
  
Goutam Ghose

Language
  
Hindi

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Running time
  
2h 21m

Country
  
India

Paar (film) movie poster

Release date
  
1984

Based on
  
Paathi  by Samaresh Basu

Writer
  
Partha Banerjee, Samaresh Basu (story), Goutam Ghose (screenplay), Partho Mukerjee (screenplay)

Awards
  
National Film Award for Best Actress

Cast
  
Naseeruddin Shah
,
Shabana Azmi
,
Utpal Dutt
,
Om Puri
,
Mohan Agashe

Similar movies
  
Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi appear in Paar and Genesis

Paar (translation: "The Crossing ") is a 1984 Hindi movie directed by Goutam Ghose. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri. Naseeruddin Shah won a Volpi Cup for his role as Naurangia. The film was based on Bengali story Paari by Samaresh Basu.

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Plot

The film of exploitation in rural Bihar, in which a landlord (Utpal Dutt)’s men wreck a village and kill the benevolent schoolmaster (Anil Chatterjee) who was a progressive force in the village. The labourer Naurangia (Naseeruddin Shah) breaks with a tradition to passive resistance and retaliates by killing the landlord’s brother. Naurangia and his wife Rama (Shabana Azmi) become fugitives from justice. After many efforts to find sustenance elsewhere, the two decide to return home. To earn the fare, they agree to drive the herd of pigs through the river, causing the pregnant Rama to believe she has lost her baby. But they have to swim across a wide, swiftly flowing river, in which they nearly drown before reaching safety. At the end of the film Naurangia puts his ear to her belly and listens to the heartbeats of the unborn baby.

Cast

  • Naseeruddin Shah ... Naurangia
  • Shabana Azmi ... Rama
  • Om Puri ... Ram Naresh (Village Pradhan)
  • Utpal Dutt ... Landlord
  • Awards

  • Best Screenplay for Goutam Ghose and Partha Banerjee
  • National Film Award for Best Actor for Naseeruddin Shah
  • National Film Award for Best Actress for Shabana Azmi
  • Volpi Cup Best Actor for Naseeruddin Shah
  • UNESCO Award at Venice Film Festival
  • Fipresci Award
  • Red Cross Award at Verna Film Festival (1987)
  • References

    Paar (film) Wikipedia
    Paar (film) IMDb Paar (film) themoviedb.org