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:
Goutam Ghose, Partha Banerjee.
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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 |
| Writing | Surendra Pratap Singh | Dialogue |
| Camera | Salim Sheikh | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Dilip Banerjee | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Sibaditya Dasgupta | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Debi Haldar | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | M. Sheikh | Sound |
| Editing | Moloy Banerjee | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Panchu Gopal Naskar | Production Assistant |
| Sound | B. Chaturvedi | Sound |
| Sound | Aloknath Dey | Orchestrator |
| Art | Ram Naresh | Settings |
| Costume & Make-Up | Neelanjana Ghose | Costume Design |
| Production | Kalyan Dasgupta | Production Executive |
| Sound | Robin Sengupta | Sound |
| Art | Bhola Malik | Settings |
| Production | Bhagirath Chakravorty | Production Assistant |
| Production | Paltu Das | Production Assistant |
| Camera | Nemai Ghosh | Still Photographer |
| Art | Shatadal Mitra | Assistant Art Director |
| Production | Dulal Saha | Production Assistant |
| Camera | Sudama Ram | Grip |
| Art | Babaji Swai | Settings |
| Camera | Anil Ghosh | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Jyoti Chatterjee | Sound |
| Art | Dhanuk Dhari Rum | Settings |
| Crew | Shanu Banerjee | Production Controller |
| Directing | David Roy Chowdhury | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Sanjay Bhattacharya | Assistant Camera |
| Production | Trailokya Chakravorty | Production Assistant |
| Art | Bimal Majumdar | Title Designer |
| Art | Naba Rauth | Settings |
| Production | Anath Banerjee | Production Manager |
| Writing | Goutam Ghose | Screenplay |
| Writing | Partha Banerjee | Screenplay |
| Sound | Anup Mukhopadhyay | Sound Designer |
| Editing | Prasanta Dey | Editor |
| Crew | M.A. Hafeez | Special Effects |
| Production | Swapan Sarkar | Producer |
| Sound | Shabana Azmi | Playback Singer |
| Art | Ashoke Bose | Art Direction |
| Camera | Goutam Ghose | Director of Photography |
| Crew | S.A. Azim | Special Effects |
| Writing | Samaresh Basu | Short Story |
| Sound | Goutam Ghose | Original Music Composer |