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Saaz is a film of genre Drama directed by Sai Parānjpye with Shabana Azmi
Saaz (1997)
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Add to a movie listSaaz is a Hindi movie produced and directed by Sai Paranjpye and released in 1998, starring Aruna Irani and Shabana Azmi in lead roles. The plot is allegedly based on the life of legendary singing sisters of Bollywood, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. In an interview after the release of the film Asha said, "Its not true at all. To have two women in long plaits, take a couple of incidents and exaggerate them into a 3-hour film is such a waste of time."
Synopsis
Mansi, the elder sister, has to take up professional singing after her father's death and to support the family. The film focuses mainly on the female characters and traces how the younger sibling Bansi regains her identity.Actors
Shabana Azmi
(Bansidhar (Bansi) Vrundavan)
Raghubir Yadav
Aruna Irani
(Mansi Vrundavan (Maan Didi))
Zakir Hussain
Zakir Hussain
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, 2h15Directed by Sai Parānjpye
Actors Shabana Azmi, Nana Patekar, Om Puri, Raghubir Yadav, Sayaji Shinde, Achyut Potdar
Rating70%
Sparsh (1980)
, 2h25Directed by Sai Parānjpye
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about disabilities, Bollywood, La cécité
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Mohan Gokhale
Rating79%
This film is about the blind, in particular about the lives and feelings of blind children and the principal of their school. Sparsh refers to the sensation and feeling of touch upon which blind people rely in the absence of sight.
Papeeha (1992)
, 2h30Directed by Sai Parānjpye
Actors Milind Gunaji, Raghubir Yadav
Rating73%
Jia, an anthropologist comes to the forests to study tribals where she meets Kabir Sagar, a forest officer. Fiercely protective of forest, Kabir initially resents Jia's visit, taking her to be another pretentious expert on an excursion. Jia returns the cold vibes but takes a liking to his assistant Bichhua, a local tribal. Who takes her to where he lives in the interiors. There she comes to know the designs of timber mafia out to axe trees in the forest and a local landlord Mangeram in cahoots with a multinational company out to acquire the forest land. Jia and Kabir too come close. Kabir presents her an ornate comb, a tribal man's way of professing his love. But she wards off any ideas of romantic involvement. Meanwhile men in the village are coaxed into cutting trees but women plan to defy them aided by Jia and Bichhua. As men come with axes to cut trees they are confronted by women from their own families clutching on to a tree each. The forest is saved and Bichhua's wedding festivities are on when Jia, who has been offered a scholarship to study abroad, in the meanwhile, makes a surprise appearance wearing the comb in her hair.
Katha (1982)
, 2h21Directed by Sai Parānjpye
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Farooq Sheikh, Deepti Naval, Tinnu Anand, Yatin Karyekar, Leela Mishra
Rating76%
The film is loosely based on the classical Indian folktale of the hare and the tortoise, providing a modern interpretation of the same. Even though the good (tortoise) may win in the end, is it worth the wait? It is based on S.G.Sathye's Marathi play 'Sasa aani Kasav' (Hare and Tortoise).
Chashme Buddoor (1981)
Directed by Sai Parānjpye
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Buddy films
Actors Farooq Sheikh, Deepti Naval, Saeed Jaffrey, Rakesh Bedi, Ravi Baswani, Amitabh Bachchan
Rating78%
Siddharth (Farooq Shaikh), Omi (Rakesh Bedi) and Jomo (Ravi Baswani) are close friends and room mates who are studying at Delhi University. Siddharth has completed M.A in Economics and is preparing for PhD. While Siddharth is a studious boy who loves to spend most of his time with books, his other two friends- Omi and Jomo are mostly busy chasing girls, watching movies or dramas. The only thing common among three of them is smoking. One day, Omi and Jomo see a girl (Neha) who is new to their neighborhood and try to impress her by their tricks. However, both of them give up after experiencing shameful events. After some days, Neha (Deepti Naval) visits their flat as the salesgirl of Chamko washing powder. As soon as Jomo and Omi see her, they hide quickly. Siddharth meets Neha for the first time and soon a love story begins. But when his other two friends find out, they decide to plot something to end their relationship and also to seek revenge to the embarrassment inflicted upon them by the girl. Initially, they succeed in separating Siddharth and Neha but later on repent when they realise that Siddharth has started losing his interest in work and study and is most likely to end his life as well. Finally, they decide to reunite both the lovers.
Jadu Ka Shankh (1974)
Directed by Sai Parānjpye
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Sulabha Deshpande, Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rahul Ranade
Chor Aur Chaand (1993)
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Aditya Pancholi, Pooja Bhatt, Aruna Irani, Alok Nath, Raghubir Yadav, Avtar Gill
Rating68%
Reema lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed businessman dad, Dinkar, and her grandma. Her dad wants her to marry Vicky, but she dislikes him. On the day of the marriage, while fully dressed as a Hindu bride, Reema plans to run away. It is at this time that she sees a stranger in her house, thinking it is her dad's employee, she tries to run from him, but he catches up with her. He tells her that his name is Suraj alias Surya, an ex-convict, who has just been released from prison. As he had no money, he as unable to eat anything, and hence had broken into their house to steal money and jewelery. While on the run, they are also joined by Hero, who had attempted to rob a bank so that he could go to Bombay and become a movie star. His attempt at robbing the bank had failed and he is now on run from the police. When Dinkar is told that Reema has run away, he contacts a local gangster named Lala and asks him to locate her. Lala, in his turn asks Ranga, one of his hoodlums, to find Reema. Ranga finds out where Reema, Hero and Suraj are holed up. At the same time, Inspector Naik also finds out their whereabouts. But Naik has a different reason for locating them - he has a score to settle with Suraj, and wants Reema for himself. There is no doubt at all that Reema, Suraj and Hero are headed for nothing but trouble, as the gangster and their men on one hand, and Inspector Naik on the other, close in on them, making their escapade virtually impossible.
What Will People Say? (1983)
Directed by B. R. Ishara
Genres Drama
Actors Shabana Azmi, Shatrughan Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar, Aruna Irani, Navin Nischol, Manmohan Krishna Chadha
Rating20%
A young woman (Shabana Azmi) is forced into a pre-arranged marriage with a widower. She comes to detest her husband and his son and the life that has been enforced upon her. She begins an affair with another man. One day her stepson discovers her with the other man and she kills him to prevent him from telling her husband. Ultimately she also kills her husband as her mental health declines and she becomes insane.
Fakira (1976)
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Madan Puri, Danny Denzongpa
Rating61%
Two small children, who are brothers, lose their parents in a fire. They are harassed by bad men and get separated. They grow up and become criminals. One is played by Shashi Kapoor, while the other is played Danny Denzongpa. They become enemies, not knowing that they are brothers. A policewoman, played by Shabana Azmi, goes undercover in Shashi Kapoor's criminal group, which includes Asrani and Aruna Irani. She and Shashi Kapoor fall in love, but Aruna Irani doesn't trust as she loves Shashi Kapoor herself.Madan Puri is the villain.