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Saeed Akhtar Mirza is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 30 june 1943 at Mumbai (Inde)
Saeed Akhtar Mirza (born 30 June 1943) is an Indian screenwriter and director in Hindi films and television. He is the maker of important Parallel cinema films like Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980), Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989) and Naseem (1995), which won two National Film Awards in 1996.
He is director of the popular TV serials Nukkad (Street Corner) (1986) and Intezaar (Wait) (1988), along with various documentary films on social welfare and cultural activism. He is also a trustee of ANHAD, a Delhi based NGO working for communal harmony.
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Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Nationality Inde
Birth 30 june 1943 (81 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards National Film Award for Best Direction, Filmfare Awards
Birth 30 june 1943 (81 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards National Film Award for Best Direction, Filmfare Awards
Saeed Akhtar Mirza (born 30 June 1943) is an Indian screenwriter and director in Hindi films and television. He is the maker of important Parallel cinema films like Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980), Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989) and Naseem (1995), which won two National Film Awards in 1996.
He is director of the popular TV serials Nukkad (Street Corner) (1986) and Intezaar (Wait) (1988), along with various documentary films on social welfare and cultural activism. He is also a trustee of ANHAD, a Delhi based NGO working for communal harmony.
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Filmography of Saeed Akhtar Mirza (10 films)
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Celluloid Man (2012)
, 2h30Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Krzysztof Zanussi, Lester James Peries, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Gulzar, Naseeruddin Shah
Roles Self
Rating75%
P. K. Nair’s fascination with cinema began as a child and he watched his first few films lying on the white sand floor of a cinema in Trivandrum. He was a collector even then - collecting ticket stubs, lobby cards, even weighing machine tickets sporting pictures of the stars of the day. He grew up to be a great collector of films.
Director
Ek Tho Chance (2009)
Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama, Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Purab Kohli, Amrita Arora Ladak, Vijay Raaz, Pavan Malhotra, Ali Fazal, Ashwini Kalsekar
Rating47%
The film tells the tale of Mumbai city and the millions who get off the train at VT station at every second of the day, hoping to latch on to the magic of Mumbai.
Naseem (1995)
, 2hDirected by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Kaifi Azmi alias Tun Party, Mayuri Kango, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kay Kay Menon, Surekha Sikri, Ravi Jhankal
Rating70%
Naseem means Morning breeze, and charts the story of a young school going girl Naseem (Mayuri Kango) in the months leading up to the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.
Naseem (1995)
, 1h29Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama
Actors Mayuri Kango, Kaifi Azmi alias Tun Party, Kay Kay Menon, Surekha Sikri, Salim Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Rating70%
The film is set between June and December 1992, the days preceding the infamous demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh by Hindu fanatics. Relationship between Naseem, a 15-year-old schoolgirl belonging to a middle class Bombay based Muslim family and his ailing grandfather takes the story forward as the family watches with increasing horror on their TV the news of the growing tension between Muslims and Hindus. The grandfather keeps regaling her with stories of life marked by communal harmony in the pre-independence city of Agra. As communal tension erupts in the city of Bombay, Naseem notices changing dynamics at her school and in the neighborhood, while her grandfather watches helplessly at a city getting deeply divided on communal lines. The old man dies on December 6 coinciding with the news of the destruction of the mosque.
Don't Cry for Salim (1989)
, 2hDirected by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Pavan Malhotra, Makarand Deshpande, Ashutosh Gowariker, Rajendra Gupta, Neelima Azeem, Vikram Gokhale
Rating76%
The film is set in the period of the Hindutva mobilization of the 1980s, the consequent explosive communal conflict, and its impact on the lives of the young men of the minority Muslim community, represented by a working class Muslim family in Mumbai. Salim Pasha (Langda or Lame) is a small-time thief and goonda and lives with his parents and sister in a shady neighborhood where crime and illegal activities are accepted professions.
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
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.
, 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
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.
Ghashiram Kotwal (1976)
Directed by Mani Kaul, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Jabbar Patel
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Mohan Agashe, Om Puri, Tom Alter
Rating69%
The play begins with an invocation to lord Ganesha. Then the Brahmins of Pune introduce themselves and we can see the morally corrupt state of affairs in Pune. Nana Phadnavis who is the Diwan (Chief Secretary) of Pune is also corrupt and visits the lavani dancer. Ghashiram is working with the lavani dancer. Ghashiram being a Brahmin goes to collect alms at the Peshwa's festival the next day. However he is ill-treated there and is charged with pick-pocketing and imprisoned for the offence. He then decides to take revenge.
Scriptwriter
Ek Tho Chance (2009)
Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama, Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Purab Kohli, Amrita Arora Ladak, Vijay Raaz, Pavan Malhotra, Ali Fazal, Ashwini Kalsekar
Roles Story
Rating47%
The film tells the tale of Mumbai city and the millions who get off the train at VT station at every second of the day, hoping to latch on to the magic of Mumbai.
Naseem (1995)
, 2hDirected by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Kaifi Azmi alias Tun Party, Mayuri Kango, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kay Kay Menon, Surekha Sikri, Ravi Jhankal
Rating70%
Naseem means Morning breeze, and charts the story of a young school going girl Naseem (Mayuri Kango) in the months leading up to the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.
Naseem (1995)
, 1h29Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama
Actors Mayuri Kango, Kaifi Azmi alias Tun Party, Kay Kay Menon, Surekha Sikri, Salim Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Rating70%
The film is set between June and December 1992, the days preceding the infamous demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh by Hindu fanatics. Relationship between Naseem, a 15-year-old schoolgirl belonging to a middle class Bombay based Muslim family and his ailing grandfather takes the story forward as the family watches with increasing horror on their TV the news of the growing tension between Muslims and Hindus. The grandfather keeps regaling her with stories of life marked by communal harmony in the pre-independence city of Agra. As communal tension erupts in the city of Bombay, Naseem notices changing dynamics at her school and in the neighborhood, while her grandfather watches helplessly at a city getting deeply divided on communal lines. The old man dies on December 6 coinciding with the news of the destruction of the mosque.
Don't Cry for Salim (1989)
, 2hDirected by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Pavan Malhotra, Makarand Deshpande, Ashutosh Gowariker, Rajendra Gupta, Neelima Azeem, Vikram Gokhale
Roles Writer
Rating76%
The film is set in the period of the Hindutva mobilization of the 1980s, the consequent explosive communal conflict, and its impact on the lives of the young men of the minority Muslim community, represented by a working class Muslim family in Mumbai. Salim Pasha (Langda or Lame) is a small-time thief and goonda and lives with his parents and sister in a shady neighborhood where crime and illegal activities are accepted professions.
Khamosh (1985)
Directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Pankaj Kapur, Soni Razdan, Sushma Seth
Rating74%
Soni Razdan is a budding actress. Shah is a military man. Amol Palekar is an established actor. Shabana Azmi is a fellow actresS. Ajit Vachani is a film producer and Pankaj Kapoor is his mentally unstable brother. Sushma Seth plays Mrs. Bhal, a retired actress now doing character roles and pushing her reluctant daughter into the film industry to obtain fame and fortune.
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 Story
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.