Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa Film Details :
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa is an 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 directer is Govind Nihalani and is based on Magsaysay and Jnanpith award recipient Mahasweta Devi’s Bengali 1974 novel Hajar Churashir Maa . The screenplay is writter are Nihalani and the dialogues Tripurari Sharma. The film stars Jaya Bachchan as Sujata Chatterjee, Anupam Kher as Dibyanath Chatterjee, Milind Gunaji as Inspector Saroj Pal, Seema Biswas as Somu’s mother, Joy Sengupta as Brati Chatterjee and Nandita Das as Nandini Mitra. 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.
- Directer:Govind Nihalani
- Producer:Manmohan Shetty, Govind Nihalani
- Written :Mahasweta Devi ,Govind Nihalani,Tripurari Sharma
- Starring:Jaya Bachchan,Anupam Kher,Joy,Sengupta,Nandita Das,Seema,Biswas,Milind Gunaji,Aditya,Srivastava
- Music :Debajyoti Mishra
- Cinematography:Govind Nihalani
- Edited :Deepa Bhatia
- Production Design:Yashodhara Roy
- Art Direction :Chokas Bharadwaj
- Costume Design :Yashodhara Roy
- Makeup Department :Milind Chauhan,Rajendra Chavan,Bashir Khan
- Assistant Director :Riju Bajaj,Pravesh Bhardwaj,Shivaji Dasgupta,Subodh Karve,Meenakshi Sharma,Purvi Vadhani
- Sound Department:Anirvan Ghosh,A.M. Padmanabhan,Prabal Pradhan
- Special Effects:Nandu Chaudhari
- Stunts :Allan Amin
- Genres: Drama
- Release date:20 March 1998 (India)
- Running time:152 min
- Country:India
- Language:Hindi
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa Full Movie:
Star Cast:
- Jaya Bachchan … Sujata Chatterji (as Jaya Bhaduri)
- Anupam Kher … Dibyanath Chatterji (Brati’s father)
- Seema Biswas … Somu’s mother
- Milind Gunaji … Saroj Pal, Police officer
- Joy Sengupta … Brati Chatterji
- Nandita Das … Nandini Mitra
- Bhakti Barve
- Kanti Madia … (as Kanti Madija)
- Vineet Kumar
- Sandeep Kulkarni
- Anupam Shyam
- Lalit Parimoo
- Atul Tiwari
- Milon Mukhopadhyay
- Mona Ambegaonkar
- Mandeep Bhandar
- Shubhangi Gokhale
- Riju Bajaj
- Aditya Srivastav
- Rajesh Khera
- Ravi Gossain … (as Ravi Gosain)
- Satish Rajwade … (as Satish Rajawade)
- Amit Roy
- Loveleen Mishra … (as Lovleen Mishra)
- Sadiya Siddiqui … (as Sadia Siddiqui)
- Suhita Thatte
- Bharati Jaffrey … (as Bharti Jaffry)
- Harish Khanna
- Ravi Kale
- Manoj Verma
- Rajesh Tailang … Somu’s Father
- Sanjeeva Vatsa … (as Sanjeeva Vats)
- Sanil Sodhi
- Yashpal Sharma … Laltu (Brati’s comrade)
- Vivek Mishra
- Mukul Nag
Film Story:
Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata (played by Jaya Bachchan), and youngest son, Brati, live an affluent existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school and is now attending college. His parents are proud of him, and keep track of his progress. Then their world is shattered during the early hours, when they are informed by the police that Brati has been killed. Dibyanath and Sujata go to identify Brati’s body, mourn, lament inconsolably. They know now that their lives will never be the same again – for by the police they will be called the mother and father of corpse No. 1084. Sujata struggles to understand Brati’s passing, meets his friends one by one, comes to know that Brati had a girlfriend, Nandini Mitra (played by Nandita Das), and that’s when she finds out that Brati was part of a rebel group often referred to as “Naxalite”, a militant leftist group. As she delves deeper and deeper into Brati’s former life, she begins to understand her son’s struggle, and decides to continue to further
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa Movie Review:
This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give a weighted average 7.2 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 261.
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa Movie Box office collection:
| Screens: 4 Budget: 75,00,000 India Gross: 10,00,000 Worldwide Gross: 10,00,000 Verdict: DISASTER |
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