Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998)

Original title

हज़ार चौरासी की माँ

Directed by

Govind Nihalani

Genre

drama

Country

India

Runtime

2h 32m

Rated

A

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother struggles to understand the life and death of her son, who was killed for his involvement in a radical political movement. The film follows her quiet investigation into his beliefs and the circumstances that led to his death.

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What happens

Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (English: The Mother of 1084) is a 1998 Indian feature film that deals with the life of a woman who loses her son, a Naxalite, to the violence that is a result of his adopted ideology. The film is directed produced by Govind Nihalani and is based on Magsaysay and Jnanpith award recipient Mahasweta Devi's Bengali 1974 novel Hajar Churashir Maa. The screenplay is written by Nihalani and the dialogues by Tripurari Sharma. The film stars Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Milind Gunaji, Seema Biswas, Joy Sengupta and Nandita Das. It marks Jaya Bachchan's return to acting after a gap of 18 years. In 1998, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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