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3 June 1994 (UK) morePlot:
An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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David Caruso's Stalker In Custody...Thank God (From Actress Archives. 22 February 2009, 7:49 PM, PST)
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(From WENN. 9 February 2009, 11:20 AM, PST)
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Unique and much misunderstood moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Shashi Kapoor | ... | Nur |
 | Shabana Azmi | ... | Imtiaz Begum |
 | Om Puri | ... | Deven |
| Sushma Seth | ... | Safiya Begum |
| Neena Gupta | ... | Sarla |
| Tinnu Anand | ... | Murad |
| Prayag Raj | ... | Jain |
| Parikshat Sahni | ... | Siddiqui (as Ajay Sahni) |
| Sagar Arya | ... | Chiku |
| Alakh Nandan | ... | Trivedi |
| Yusuf Khurram | ... | Young Poet |
| Riju Bajaj | ... | Young Poet |
| Maza Bi | ... | Safiya's Attendant |
| Nayeem Hafizka | ... | Young Poet |
| Veerendra Saxena | ... | Young Poet |
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The first scene of an old man composing a poem, as he looks out the window of his decaying villa at the timeless Indian landscape, establishes that he is a great poet. The rest of the film shows us the price that he has willingly paid for his poetry, and the tragedy of writing in a dying language. The comic efforts of the school teacher to record the old man reading his poetry highlight the tragedy, and as the teacher becomes more and more entangled in the poet's life, he comes to understand (as we do) that none of the poet's sacrifices have diminished him, and that he has no regrets. Perhaps the most poignant scene is the teacher's interview with the poet's young second wife, who (unable to create poetry) performs his poems to music and passes them off as her own. Her response to his charge of plagiarism leaves him speechless, and reveals more about the position of women in Indian society than a dozen feminist studies. Perhaps the reason why this film received poor reviews is that everyone is looking for Hollywood (or Bollywood) stereotypes, and missing a very moving story that is told in a quiet and unpretentious way.