Paar (1984)
When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.
Director:
Goutam Ghose
Writers:
Partha Banerjee, Goutam Ghose.
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Naseeruddin Shah as Naurangia |
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Shabana Azmi as Rama |
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Utpal Dutt as Bhola Singh |
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Om Puri as Ramnaresh |
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Mohan Agashe as Hari Singh |
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Anil Chatterjee as Schoolmaster |
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Ruma Guha Thakurta as |
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Sunil Mukherjee as Chamku |
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Kamu Mukherjee as Headman |
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Masood Akhtar as |
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Usha Ganguly as |
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Kalyan Chatterjee as |
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Bimal Deb as |
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Bhopal Reddy as |
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Sujal Roy Chowdhury as |
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Reba Roy Chowdhury as |
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Nandu Chatterjee as |
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Sunil Kumar Biswas as |
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Niranjan Roy as |
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Nirmal Mitra as |
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Kalipada Chakraborty as |
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S. P. Mukherjee as |
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Prabir Ganguly as |
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Paritosh Roy as |
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Dipti Bhatt as |
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Subir Mukherjee as |
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Shyamal Ghoshal as |
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Atmanan Singh as |
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Roopa Ganguly as |
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Shiv Shankar Banerjee as |
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Polly Sanyal as |
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Amar Bhattacharya as |
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Shibu Joarddar as |
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Arun Maitra as |
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Jitendra Shrivastav as |
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Bharati Mitra as |
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Manisha Ghosh as |
| Directing | Goutam Ghose | Director |
| Directing | Mohan Koda | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | David Roy Chowdhury | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Sibaditya Dasgupta | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Salim Sheikh | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Nemai Ghosh | Still Photographer |
| Art | Shatadal Mitra | Assistant Art Director |
| Camera | Sudama Ram | Grip |
| Costume & Make-Up | Debi Haldar | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | B. Chaturvedi | Sound |
| Art | Babaji Swai | Settings |
| Production | Bhagirath Chakravorty | Production Assistant |
| Sound | Aloknath Dey | Orchestrator |
| Art | Bhola Malik | Settings |
| Production | Paltu Das | Production Assistant |
| Art | Bimal Majumdar | Title Designer |
| Production | Panchu Gopal Naskar | Production Assistant |
| Sound | M. Sheikh | Sound |
| Camera | Dilip Banerjee | Assistant Camera |
| Writing | Surendra Pratap Singh | Dialogue |
| Camera | Sanjay Bhattacharya | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Anil Ghosh | Assistant Camera |
| Production | Trailokya Chakravorty | Production Assistant |
| Sound | Jyoti Chatterjee | Sound |
| Production | Kalyan Dasgupta | Production Executive |
| Art | Ram Naresh | Settings |
| Production | Anath Banerjee | Production Manager |
| Art | Dhanuk Dhari Rum | Settings |
| Crew | Shanu Banerjee | Production Controller |
| Production | Dulal Saha | Production Assistant |
| Sound | Robin Sengupta | Sound |
| Editing | Moloy Banerjee | Assistant Editor |
| Art | Naba Rauth | Settings |
| Costume & Make-Up | Neelanjana Ghose | Costume Design |
| Writing | Partha Banerjee | Screenplay |
| Writing | Goutam Ghose | Screenplay |
| Sound | Anup Mukhopadhyay | Sound Designer |
| Editing | Prasanta Dey | Editor |
| Production | Swapan Sarkar | Producer |
| Art | Ashoke Bose | Art Direction |
| Sound | Shabana Azmi | Playback Singer |
| Crew | S.A. Azim | Special Effects |
| Crew | M.A. Hafeez | Special Effects |
| Camera | Goutam Ghose | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Samaresh Basu | Short Story |
| Sound | Goutam Ghose | Original Music Composer |