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Anjali Paigankar is a Hindi and Marathi film actress.
A graduate of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, Anjali appeared in Murder at Monkey Hill, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s diploma film as a final year student there in 1976. The short film was noticed in parallel cinema circles earning work for many of the students involved in the film. The previous year she had already appeared in a short role in Shyam Benegal’s Charandas Chor. In 1977, she appeared in Amol Palekar starrer Taxi-Taxie but the film flopped.
Anjali went on to act in a Marathi film Sarvasakshi and a Hindi film Dillagi, both released in 1978. The same year she appeared as a main female lead in the film Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan. She also acted in Chakra and Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai after that.
During this period Anjali posed for the nude centrespread in a magazine Debonair. Following a backlash, she is said to have slid underground not to be seen in films after that.
A graduate of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, Anjali appeared in Murder at Monkey Hill, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s diploma film as a final year student there in 1976. The short film was noticed in parallel cinema circles earning work for many of the students involved in the film. The previous year she had already appeared in a short role in Shyam Benegal’s Charandas Chor. In 1977, she appeared in Amol Palekar starrer Taxi-Taxie but the film flopped.
Anjali went on to act in a Marathi film Sarvasakshi and a Hindi film Dillagi, both released in 1978. The same year she appeared as a main female lead in the film Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan. She also acted in Chakra and Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai after that.
During this period Anjali posed for the nude centrespread in a magazine Debonair. Following a backlash, she is said to have slid underground not to be seen in films after that.
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Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984)
, 2h10Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Bhisham Sahni, Dina Pathak, Rohini Hattangadi, Amjad Khan
Roles Joshi's Son's girlfriend
Rating74%
An old couple, Mohan Joshi (Bhisham Sahni) and his wife (Dina Pathak), sues their landlord (Amjad Khan) for not maintaining their 'collapsing' apartment building. For this, they hire two cunning lawyers (Naseeruddin Shah and Satish Shah), while Rohini Hattangadi is the opposition lawyer.
Chakra (1981)
, 2h20Origin Inde
Genres Action
Actors Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rohini Hattangadi, Salim Ghouse, Anjali Paigankar
Roles Chenna
Rating69%
Amma (Smita Patil) and her son Benwa (Ranjit Chowdhry) become Bombay’s slum-dwellers after running away from their village, after her husband kills a moneylender who tried to rape her. The husband is then shot trying to steal some tin to build a hut.
, 1h50Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Om Puri, Sulabha Deshpande, Arvind Deshpande
Rating70%
The film captures the angst of a worker, in Mumbai exemplified by a young Christian car mechanic, Albert Pinto (Naseeruddin Shah) who is under the illusion that if he works hard and emulates the rich, one day he can also be successful. He makes friendly relations with his customers, who are usually the rich of the city and who keep telling him that good workers do not go on strike. Strikes are the handiwork of lumpen elements. Pinto gets angry with the supposedly wrong attitudes of the workers who he assumes go on strike under any pretext. However, when Pinto's father, who is a mill worker is abused by the lumpen elements hired by the mill owners, he realizes that it is not the workers but the capitalists who should be blamed for the plight of the workers. He also realizes the legitimacy of strikes. Towards the end of the movie, Pinto still remains an angry man; but now his anger is directed against the capitalists, not the striking workers.
, 1h50Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama
Actors Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Om Puri, Anjali Paigankar, Sulabha Deshpande, Rohini Hattangadi, Satish Shah
Roles Alice D'Costa
Rating70%
Arvind Desai (Dilip Dhawan) is the only son of a rich businessman (Shriram Lagoo) who deals in luxury handicrafts and products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples. He has long discussions on art and politics with a Marxist friend (Om Puri), is seeing his father's secretary, Alice (Anjali Paigankar) and sometimes he visits a prostitute, Fatima. Much against his wishes, his marriage is arranged to a girl from a high-class family that has just returned from Paris much to Alice's mother dismay who realizes that Alice was time-pass for Arvind and nothing more. Suresh Oberoi has done cameo in movie.
Dillagi (1978)
Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Deven Varma, Asrani, Preeti Ganguly, Shatrughan Sinha
Rating70%
Phoolrenu has been nicknamed 'carbon dioxide' and Swarnkamal is lovingly called ' jijaji' by the girls. While for Swarnkamal it is love at first sight, Phoolrenu detests him due to his style of teaching the works of Mahakavi (Great Poet) Kalidas.
Omniscient (1978)
, 2h15Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Smita Patil, Anjali Paigankar, Nilu Phule
Roles Rekha
Rating66%
Ravi, a progressive schoolteacher in a small village helps fight an epidemic by getting his students inoculated. He incurs the wrath of local witchdoctor in the process. The witchdoctor gets his chance when Rekha, the pregnant wife of Ravi comes to him after the death of their child. He demands a human sacrifice. While Rekha later dies in childbirth, Ravi is accused of superstitious activity and is ostracized by the villagers. He is, eventually cleared, however.
Taxi Taxie (1977)
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Actors Amol Palekar, Reena Roy, Rama Vij, Jalal Agha, Asha Bhosle, Anjali Paigankar
Rating63%
The Churning (1976)
, 2h14Directed by Shyam Benegal
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Mohan Agashe
Rating76%
The film traces the origins of the movement through its fictionalised narrative, based around rural empowerment, when a young veterinary surgeon, played by Girish Karnad, a character based on then, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) chief, the 33-year-old Verghese Kurien, who joined hands with local social worker, Tribhovandas Patel, which led to the setting up a local milk cooperative, in Anand, Gujarat.
Murder at Monkey Hill (1976)
, 20minutesDirected by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Genres Thriller
Actors Anjali Paigankar, Dilip Dhawan, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Roles Prabhi
Rating58%
A professional hitman Akhtar is hired by Seth to murder a girl Prabhi. But as Akhtar charms her to get near her to kill her he actually falls in love with her. At loss to honour his commitment to murder for which he has taken one lakh rupee and finding himself unable to kill her, he pays a woodcutter to do that. As the woodcutter chases Prabhi with an axe in his hand, the film comes to an abrupt end without showing if he succeeds or not.
Charandas the Thief (1975)
, 2h36Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Smita Patil, Sundar, Habib Tanvir, Anjali Paigankar
Rating77%
The film is derived from a classic folk tale, originally narrated by Vijaydan Detha, and interpreted as folk play by Habib Tanvir. The film charts the tumultuous life of a petty thief, Charandas (Lalu Ram). Curiously he is a man of principles – an honest thief with a strong sense of integrity and professional efficiency. He makes four vows to his Guru, that he would never eat in a gold plate, never lead a procession that is in his honour, never become a king and never marry a princess, thinking all of them are far out possibilities for him. Later, his guru adds a fifth one - never to tell a lie and sets him of on his life's journey which leads him to a kingdom, where the turn of events make him famous, and eventually he is offered the seat of political power which he has to refuse. Later, the local princess (Smita Patil) gets enchanted by him, and proposes to marry him. This is when his refusal costs him his life. As he is put to death, he illustrates the inherent paradox in human existence, where truthful existence becomes an impossibility, for the truthful and the accidentally truthfuls, alike.