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Masoom (1983)

Masoom poster
Original title
मासूम
Directed by
Shekhar Kapur
Genre
drama film, children's film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 45m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family's life is disrupted when the father learns he has a son from a past relationship. The child comes to live with them, testing the bonds between husband and wife and between the siblings.

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What happens

Masoom (transl. The Innocent) is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language drama film, the directorial debut of Shekhar Kapur. It is an adaptation of the 1980 Erich Segal novel Man, Woman and Child, which was also adapted into a Malayalam movie Olangal and an American movie Man, Woman and Child. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Saeed Jaffrey in lead roles, with Tanuja and Supriya Pathak in special appearances. It features Urmila Matondkar, Aradhana and Jugal Hansraj in their debuts as child actors. The screenplay, dialogues and lyrics are by Gulzar with music by R.D. Burman. The film has been remade into a Telugu movie named Illalu Priyuralu and in Turkish as Bir Akşam Üstü. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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