Director: Ismail Merchant; Writer: Anita Desai, Shahrukh Husain; Producer: Paul Bradley, Wahid Chowhan, Donald Rosenfeld; Cinematographer: Larry Pizer; Editor: Roberto Silvi; Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Sushma Seth, Neena Gupta, Tinnu Anand, Prayag Raj, Parikshat Sahni, Sagar Arya, Alakh Nandan, Yusuf Khurram, Riju Bajaj, Maza Bi, Nayeem Hafizka, Veerendra Saxena, Sameer Mitha, Rupinder Kaur, Shahid Masood, Tiblu Khan, Afzal Khan, Manzoor Ahtesham, Amit Goswani, Pragya Mekherjee, Umer Sahib, Gopal Janum, Ramratan Sen, Munawwar Noqwi, Sanjay Mohan Sagar, Farhan Khan, Anik Day, Samir Feroz, Syed Zaheer Ul-Hasan, Sulbha Chaurasia, Farooq Khan, Chunnu Ashfaque Ahmed Khan, Ustad Saeed Khan, Mustafa Taj, Nasir Mirza, Siddharth, Shashank Mukherjee, Prashant Khirwadkar, Razzak Siddiqui, Mohamad Ali, Kaynat Kauser, Parveen Rehman, Afzal Hussein, Ishak Khan, Amjad Khan, Mohd. Jail Mansoor, Shakendra Yadav, Nikhil Das, Anil Mulchandani, Shubha Bannerjee, Samta Choudhary, Jyoti Mishra, Swastika Chakraborty, Aruna Shrivastava, Megha Pal, Habib Bhopali, Nafisa Sharma, Sajid Mitha, Humayun Khan, K.S. Mehta
Duration: 02:04:28; Aspect Ratio: 1.667:1; Hue: 316.671; Saturation: 0.020; Lightness: 0.241; Volume: 0.135; Cuts per Minute: 7.190
Summary: An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man. Deven goes to Bhopal from Mirpur to meet Nur, of whom he is in awe. He finds him living with feuding wives, visited by sycophants who drink his whisky and eat his food. Deven wants to record Nur for posterity and seeks funds to buy an aged tape recorder, to bribe Safiya, the elder wife, to get Nur into a room at a brothel for a week for the recording, and to feed Nur's pals who show up. Nur's beautiful second wife, Imtiaz, wants to be taken seriously as a poetess. Dever dismisses her and ignores his own wife and child much as Nur does. In the end, what is preserved?
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