Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa

Infobox_Film
name = Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa


caption = "Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa" DVD cover
director = Govind Nihalani
writer = Mahasweta Devi (novel)
Govind Nihalani (screenplay)
Tripurari Sharma (dialogues)
starring = Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Joy Sengupta, Nandita Das, Seema Biswas, Milind Gunaji
producer = Manmohan Shetty, Govind Nihalani
cinematography = Govind Nihalani
editing = Deepa Bhatia
music = Debjyoti Mishra
released = March 20 1998 (India)
runtime = 152 min
country = flagicon|India
language = Hindi
website = http://www.govindnihalani.com/1084.html
imdb_id = 0178562

"Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa" (1998) (English: "Mother of 1084") is an Indian feature film that deals with the life of a woman who loses her son, a Naxalite, to the violence that is a result of his adopted ideology.

The film is directed by Govind Nihalani and is based on Magsaysay and Jnanpith award recipient Mahasweta Devi's Bengali novel "Hajar Churashir Ma". The screenplay is written by Nihalani and the dialogues by Tripurari Sharma. The film stars Jaya Bachchan as Sujata Chatterjee, Anupam Kher as Dibyanath Chatterjee, Milind Gunaji as Inspector Saroj Pal, Seema Biswas as Somu's mother, Joy Sengupta as Brati Chatterjee and Nandita Das as Nandini Mitra. It marks Jaya Bachchan's return to acting after a gap of 18 years.

In 1998, "Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa" won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

Cast of characters

*Jaya Bachchan as Sujata Chatterjee
*Anupam Kher as Dibyanath Chatterjee
*Joy Sengupta as Brati Chatterjee
*Seema Biswas as Somu's mother
*Nandita Das as Nandini Mitra
*Milind Gunaji as Inspector Saroj Pal
*Mona Ambegaonkar as Jyoti's wife
*Sandeep Kulkarni as Nitu Paul
*Bhakti Barve
*Aditya Srivastava
*Yashpal Sharma

External links

* [http://www.govindnihalani.com/1084.html Official website]
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