Main Azaad Hoon (1989)
- Directed by
- Tinnu Anand
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- India
- Runtime
- 2h 40m
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A journalist invents a fictional ordinary man in an article to sell newspapers. When readers demand to meet him, she hires an unemployed man to play the role. The impostor becomes a symbol for the common people.
restrainedsinceredramaticslightly cynicalhopefulearnestslow-pacedmelodramatic
What happens
Main Azaad Hoon (transl. I am Free) is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language vigilante action film adapted from the 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe, by Javed Akhtar, about an opportunistic journalist who concocts a fictitious man in a fictitious article to boost newspaper sales, but when the article gets a huge response, she finds an unemployed man to sit in as Azaad, "man of the masses". The film was directed by Tinnu Anand, and stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shabana Azmi. The film has only one song; "Itne Baazu Itne Sar", written by Shabana Azmi's real life father and noted poet Kaifi Azmi and sung by the lead actor himself, Amitabh Bachchan. The film won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue for Akhtar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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