Director: Basu Chatterjee; Writer: Basu Chatterjee, Manu Bhandari’s short story Yeh Sach Hai; Producer: Suresh Jindal, Sajid Peerbhoy; Cinematographer: K.K. Mahajan; Editor: G.G. Mayekar; Cast: Vidya Sinha, Amol Palekar, Dinesh Thakur, Rajita Thakur, Master Chikkoo, Rajprakash, Gopal Dutia, Naresh Suri
Duration: 01:43:34; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 28.019; Saturation: 0.110; Lightness: 0.288; Volume: 0.157; Cuts per Minute: 9.336; Words per Minute: 59.676
Summary: The novelist Manu Bhandari (Mahabhoj, Aapka Banti) was also associated with the 50s literary Nai Kahani movement in Hindi. Her story chronicles the life of a working woman, Deepa (Sinha) torn between two lovers: her intended husband, the gregarious bank clerk Sanjay (Palekar) and Navin (Thakur) whom she meets in Bombay when applying for a teaching job. Palekar’s debut performance in Hindi established his best-known screen image as a bumbling common-man hero. The film’s claim to represent realistically the middle class through Sanjay’s persona is belied by an extensive use of glamourous soft-focus imagery. It was Basu Chatterjee’s breakthrough into mainstream Hindi cinema, encouraging the notion that low-budget art-house films can be commercially successful.
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