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28 September 2001 (India) morePlot:
Mumtaz is a village girl whose family is killed in communal riots. She moves to Mumbai with her uncle... more | add synopsisAwards:
7 wins & 14 nominations moreUser Comments:
Realism....from Bollywood!!! moreCast
(Credited cast) | Tabu | ... | Mumtaz Ali Ansari / Mumtaz Sawant |
| Atul Kulkarni | ... | Potiya Sawant |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Vinay Apte | ... | Insp. Gaikwar |
| Abhay Bhargav | ... | Hegde Anna |
 | Ananya Khare | ... | Deepa Pandey (bar-girl) |
| Suhas Palshikar | ||
| Rajanna | ... | Uma Shankar Pandey |
| Minakshi Sahani | ... | Payal Sawant |
| Shameem Shaikh | ... | Shabnam Sheikh (Shaboo) |
| Vishal Thakkar | ... | Abhay Sawant |
| Varun Vardhan | ||
| Shri Vallabh Vyas | ... | Habib |
| Rajpal Yadav | ... | Iqbal Chamdi |
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Czech Republic:150 min (Karlovy Vary Film Festival)Country:
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"Chandni Bar" is the BEST movie to come out of Bollywood in 4 decades. Its a brave film, speaking unabashedly about the seemy underbelly of Bombay (and YES it is and always will be Bombay to many), about the nexus between crime and the corrupt police in this city, about sin and the hope of redemption dashed by a vicious system. No wonder this was NOT India's entry to the Oscars....our politicians would be loathe to export something that could "create a bad impression" (they sent the ghastly jingoistic "Lagaan" instead). Pity, because, as an example of cinema verite at its grittiest, it would have probably won. Tabu would have definitely been in the running for Best Actress --- her performance is a study in truth and control. I happened to meet her on a plane and asked whether the film was shot more-or-less in sequence; and she answered in the affirmative --- no doubt this helped her create a slowly-intensifying graph of emotion, peaking at her gut-wrenching howls in the final scene. Her subtlety and sensitivity in the role of the dance-hall girl have had few equals seen by this writer in the cinema. Also the film's design, capturing the slums, back-alleys, police-stations and of course the seedy, sexual, smoky, boozy atmosphere of the dance-bar (changing its decor and its music with the passage of time in the plot) has an attention to detail and a REALISM that anyone who has ever been to these places will marvel at. Bravo to all concerned....and now may we PLEASE have this available on DVD?