Party (1984)

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Movie
Original title Party
पार्टी
Country of production India
original language Hindi , English
Publishing year 1984
length 113 minutes
Rod
Director Govind Nihalani
script Mahesh Elkunchwar
production National Film Development Corporation
camera Govind Nihalani
cut Renu Saluja
occupation

Party ( Hindi पार्टी pārṭī ) is a 1984 Indian film directed by Govind Nihalani .

action

The rich widow Damayanti is giving a party in honor of the writer Diwankar Barve, who has recently been awarded a prestigious literary prize. She lives alone with her two grown children in a large villa and maintains her role as patron of the arts.

In addition to the writer and his partner Mohini - a worn-out, alcoholic actress - numerous other personalities from the city's literary and cultural elite have been invited. The two are not very enthusiastic about going to the party, but the representatives of the journalistic field are particularly keen.

Those in attendance are:
Damayanti's daughter Sona, who is a young illegitimate mother of Sahni's baby. She is in love with the writer and dropout Amrit and receives a romantic letter from him at the very beginning. During the party, she has to take care of the drunk Mohini and ward off Agashe's advances.
Damayanti's son Rahul, who is having his own party with American pop music in another room of the house with his friends.
A doctor of psychology who has been Damayanti's friend by her side for 25 years and manages the party with her, but tries to stay away from the conversations.
The young journalist Vrinda from a well-to-do family, who insults many a party guest with sharp comments, but ultimately insists on Bharat.
The publisher Ruth Abraham, who maintains contact with the intellectual elite for professional reasons and brings her employee Subhash to the party.
Subhash, a young man who seduces the married Malvika, although Ruth had asked him not to.
Bharat, a young aspiring writer.
Ravindra, a renowned stage actor.
Agashe, a middle-aged commercial playwright who, as an upstart, is despised by many but cannot be shunned. Damayanti considers him a suitable husband for her daughter under Sona's circumstances.
Malvika, a young upper-class woman who withdraws with Subhash to Rahul's parallel party.
Her husband Narendra, who always falls asleep at parties, and therefore doesn't notice anything.
Avinash, a friend of Amrit, who appears late at the party and tells of Amrit and his activities among the Adivasis , where he lived with him for a while. In his opinion, art has to be political.

The main actors meet in alternating combinations and develop in their conversations a psychological drama that shows the relationships between the people. In addition to the personal problems of those present, the conversation keeps coming back to the talented author Amrit, who has traded his promising career in the literary scene for a life among Adivasis, whom he supports in their fight against oppression. His intention to build a bridge between words and deeds is respected by all and occupies the party guests. At the end of the party, Avinash learns of Amrit's murder. Sona, who loves Amrit and has secretly seen her future in him, is emotionally destroyed.

The film ends with a nocturnal vision of Divankar and Bharat in which the badly wounded, dying Amrit appears.

Others

The film is based on the Marathi -Theaterstück Party of Mahesh Elkunchwar from 1976. For the director Nihalani is the difference between the play and the film is the film that the play with the question of art versus life apart is, however, thus deals with whether a person can carry two opposing moral concepts on the one hand as an artist on the other hand as a person.

criticism

"The original Marathi piece was criticized for its superficial portrayal of the Bombay intellectuals , and the film doesn't really improve matters."

- Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. P. 467

Awards

literature

  • Party . In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999 revised edition, ISBN 0-85170-669-X , p. 467

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Playing time of the NFDC DVD
  2. ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, p. 467