Ijaazat (1987)

Original title

इजाज़त

Directed by

Gulzar

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 17m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A separated couple accidentally meets in a railway waiting room. They spend the night talking and discovering truths about their lives without each other.

bittersweetmelancholicintimatereflectiveslow-burnnostalgicpoignantunderstated

What happens

Ijaazat (transl. Permission) is a 1987 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film directed by Gulzar, based on a Bengali story, Jatugriha, by Subodh Ghosh, which had earlier been adapted in Bengali in 1964 as a movie with the same name. Starring Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel in lead roles, the film followed the story of couple who are separated and who accidentally meet in a railway station waiting room and discover some truths about their lives without each other. The film belongs to the art-house genre in India known as Parallel Cinema, and won two National Film Awards in the music category. A book based on the film titled Gulzar's Ijaazat: Insights into the film by Pakistani author Mira Hashmi was launched in June 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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