Director: Muzaffar Ali; Writer: Muzaffar Ali, Hriday Lani; Producer: Muzaffar Ali; Cinematographer: Nadeem Khan; Editor: Jethu Mundul; Cast: Farooque Shaikh, Ghulam Hasan, Smita Patil As Khairun, Gita Siddharth, Yashodara, Jalal Agha, Lallulal Tewari, Hira Devi Mishra, Nana Patekar, Arun Bhutanatha, Amir Bano, Hameed, Sulabha Deshpande, Arwind Deshpande, Nitin Sethi, Hridaya Lani, Arun Joglekar, Mahabali Sinh, Dinshaw Daji, Satish Shah, Protima Bedi, Kotwara, Mahmudabad
Duration: 01:53:42; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 27.055; Saturation: 0.076; Lightness: 0.381; Volume: 0.199; Cuts per Minute: 21.705
Summary: The uneducated and landless Ghulam Hussain (Shaikh) leaves his wife Khairun (Patil) in his native village in UP to go to Bombay in search of work. He becomes a cab driver and the film intercuts his struggles in the city with those of his wife while she awaits his infrequent letters and remittances. The film’s best moments are in the sequences with the close-knit group of cabbies who operate a kind of subterranean jungle-telegraph. Muzaffar Ali’s FFC-sponsored debut features a typical and characteristically sensitive Smita Patil performance as a rural belle.
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