Director: Amol Palekar; Writer: Jayant Dharmadhikari, Vasu Bhagat, S.G. Akolkar; Producer: Amol Palekar; Cinematographer: Debu Deodhar; Editor: Waman Bhonsle, Gurudutt Shirali; Cast: Amol Palekar, Deepti Naval, Shreeram Lagoo, Anil Chatterjee, Dina Pathak, Devika Mukherjee, Vinod Chopra, Seema, Vinod Mehra
Duration: 02:09:21; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 49.090; Saturation: 0.090; Lightness: 0.302; Volume: 0.202; Cuts per Minute: 10.707; Words per Minute: 53.587
Summary: Palekar follows his Marathi film Aakriet (1981)
with this Hindi melodrama about fatalism,
adapted from a noted experimental play.
Nandu’s (Palekar) father (Lagoo) is an
astrologer who stoically lives with the
knowledge that his predictions mostly come
true. Nandu resents his father’s fatalistic
attitude and rebels when his father predicts that
Nandu’s first wife will die in childbirth, which
puts a damper on Nandu’s marriage plans with
Sushma, a rational woman prepared to take the
risk. Instead, Nandu marries the retarded but
curable Indu (Naval), hoping to circumvent his
father’s prediction. Indu is taken to hospital to
give birth and she survives, but Sushma
commits suicide to assert her right to determine
her own destiny.
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