Khandhar
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Khandhar |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Hindi |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 108 minutes |
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| Director | Mrinal Sen |
| script | Mrinal Sen |
| production | Jagdish Chokhani , Pushpa Chokhani |
| music | Bhaskar Chandavarkar |
| camera | KK Mahajan |
| cut | Mrinmoy Chakraborty |
| occupation | |
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Khandhar ( Hindi : खंडहर , khanḍahar ; translated: ruins) is a Hindi film by the Bengali director Mrinal Sen from 1984. It was based on the story Telenapota Abishkar by Premendra Mitra .
action
Three friends from a big city visit some ruins in a village where a mother lives with her daughter Jamini. She waits for a distant cousin to return to marry Jamini, but the man is already married and lives in Kolkata .
The photographer Subhash pretends to be sorry for this admirer. The mother finds her inner peace and dies. When the three friends leave, Jamini remains lonely in the ruins.
Awards
Chicago International Film Festival
- Best film Gold Hugo to Mrinal Sen
- Special jury award to Mrinal Sen
- National Film Award / Best Actress to Shabana Azmi
- National Film Award / Best Director to Mrinal Sen
background
Khandhar was Mrinal Sens's second Hindi film. With the comparatively passive story, Sen finally turned away from the political cinema of the 70s and the influence of the Indian People's Theater Association , as he had been planning to do since the Communists came to power in West Bengal in 1977.
The film was later shown at the Toronto International Film Festival .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 461
Web links
- Khandhar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Khandahar on mrinalsen.org
- Movie info