Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa

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Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
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Directed by Govind Nihalani
Written by Mahasweta Devi (novel)
Govind Nihalani (screenplay)
Tripurari Sharma (dialogues)
Produced by Manmohan Shetty, Govind Nihalani
Starring Jaya Bachchan
Anupam Kher
Joy Sengupta
Nandita Das
Seema Biswas
Milind Gunaji
Aditya Srivastava
CinematographyGovind Nihalani
Edited by Deepa Bhatia
Music by Debajyoti Mishra
Release date
  • 20 March 1998 (1998-03-20)(India)
Running time
152 min
Country India
LanguageHindi

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. [1]

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The film is directed produced by Govind Nihalani [2] and is based on Magsaysay and Jnanpith award recipient Mahasweta Devi's Bengali 1974 novel Hajar Churashir Maa (Bengali : হাজার চুরাশির মা). [3] 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. [4] 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.

Plot

Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, 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, learns 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 this.

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References

  1. ↑ "Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) Story - Plot summary of the film". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa - Movie - Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  3. ↑ Govind Nihalani, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa. 1998 , retrieved 22 November 2021
  4. ↑ Munsi, Sharanya (4 November 2018). "As DD journalist is killed by Naxals, here's how Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa showed sense of loss". ThePrint. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "First of Many: Yashpal Sharma revisits Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa". 5 May 2021.


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