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'''Party'''''''''


1984 118’(155’) col Hindi
d/c Govind Nihalani pc NFDC s Mahesh
Elkunchwar from his Marathi play
lp Rohini Hattangadi, Manohar Singh, Vijaya
Mehta, Deepa Sahi, K.K. Raina, Soni Razdan,
Shafi Inamdar, Om Puri, Amrish Puri, Akash
Khurana, Naseeruddin Shah, Gulan Kripalani,
Pearl Padamse


An exemplary tale set in a middle-class artistic
milieu inaugurating Nihalani’s long-term
project of filmed theatre. Mrs Rane (Mehta)
hosts a party for the recipient of a literary prize
(Singh). The gathered ‘intelligentsia’ are
revealed to be shallow hypocrites compared
with the absent poet Amrit (Shah), who
abandoned his literary career to become an
activist among the tribals. The original Marathi
play was criticised for its superficial depiction
of the Bombay intelligentsia and the film does
not really improve matters. Nihalani
commented about the differences between the
play and the film: ‘There is a major difference
in the thrust. The play is concerned with the
question of art versus life. The film goes a bit
further and tries to see whether a person can
have two contrary sets of morality: one as an
artist and the other as a human being.’

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