Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Paar

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Jul 16, 2012, 8:08:02 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Paar

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+'''Paar'''''''''
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+aka The Crossing
+1984 141’(120’) col Hindi
+d/co-sc/c/m Gautam Ghose pc Orchid Films
+co-sc Partha Bannerjee st Samaresh Bose’s short
+story Paarhi dial S.P. Singh.
+lp Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Utpal
+Dutt, Om Puri, Mohan Agashe, Anil
+Chatterjee, Ruma Guha-Thakurta, Sunil
+Mukherjee, Kamu Mukherjee
+
+
+One of the former photo-journalist and
+documentarist Ghosh’s best-known films, it
+features a familiar New Indian Cinema cast:
+Shah, Puri and Azmi. A fable of exploitation in
+rural Bihar, in which the landlord’s (Dutt) men
+wreck a village and kill the benevolent
+schoolmaster (Chatterjee) who was its
+progressive force. The labourer Naurangia
+(Shah) breaks with a tradition of passive
+resistance and retaliates by killing the
+landlord’s brother. Naurangia and his wife
+Rama (Azmi) become fugitives from justice.
+After many efforts to find sustenance
+elsewhere, the two decide to return home. To
+earn the fare, they agree to drive a herd of pigs
+through a river, causing the pregnant Rama to
+believe she has lost her baby. At the end of the
+film Naurangia puts his ear to her belly and
+listens to the heartbeats of the unborn child.
+The original short story dealt mainly with the
+river crossing and the film was criticised for not
+adequately integrating this episode with the
+others. With this film Ghosh joined the trend of
+70s ruralist realism, although the river-crossing
+episode achieves a wider metaphoric
+resonance.
+
+[[Film]]