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A Thousand Desires Like These is a film of genre Drama directed by Sudhir Mishra with Kay Kay Menon

A Thousand Desires Like These (2003)

A Thousand Desires Like These
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Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi is an Indian film made by director Sudhir Mishra in 2003, but released in 2005. Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 1970s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes. The movie's title is taken from a poem by Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

It went to 12 film festivals in 6 months including Turkey, Estonia, River to River (Florence), Berlin, Edinburgh, Washington, Goa, Bite The Mango (Bradford), Commonwealth (Manchester), India (Los Angeles), Dallas, and Pacific Rim (California).

Synopsis

The film opens at Hindu College in Delhi with the story of three students, Siddharth Tyabji (Kay Kay Menon), Geeta Rao (Chitrangada Singh) and Vikram Malhotra (Shiney Ahuja). Siddharth is a driven revolutionary who dreams of bringing a revolution in the state of Bihar that will end the caste-based discrimination there; bring social justice, and, change the society for the better. Geeta is a London returned, South Indian girl in love with the firebrand Siddharth. She has led a very sheltered life thus far, and is yet to explore the terrain of the Indian socio-political landscape. While she finds Siddharth's Naxalite rhetoric attractive, she is not sure if she can whole-heartedly subscribe to it. And every time they come to point of choice, Siddharth chooses his ideology over his love for her thus breaking her heart time and again. Vikram is a middle-class boy who dreams of making it big, whatever the cost. He is particularly afflicted by his father's Gandhian ideas, but irritated and frustrated at the same time, seeing his father's way of life as ineffective in bringing about a change.

Actors

Kay Kay Menon

(Siddharth Tyabji)Chitrangada Singh

(Geeta Rao Mehta)Akhil Mishra

(Vikram's Father)Shiney Ahuja

(Vikram Malhotra)Saurabh Shukla

(Bihari constable)
And :
Aditya Bhattacharya
Ram Kapoor
Yashpal Sharma
Anupam Shyam Saikia
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