Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa | |
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Directed by | Govind Nihalani |
Written by | Mahasweta Devi (novel) Govind Nihalani (screenplay) Tripurari Sharma (dialogues) |
Produced by | Manmohan Shetty, Govind Nihalani |
Starring | Jaya Bachchan Anupam Kher Joy Sengupta Nandita Das Seema Biswas Milind Gunaji Aditya Srivastava |
Cinematography | Govind Nihalani |
Edited by | Deepa Bhatia |
Music by | Debajyoti Mishra |
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Running time | 152 min |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (English: The Mother of 1084) is a 1998 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.[1]
The film is directed produced by Govind Nihalani[2] and is based on Magsaysay and Jnanpith award recipient Mahasweta Devi's Bengali 1974 novel Hajar Churashir Maa (Bengali: হাজার চুরাশির মা).[3] The screenplay is written by Nihalani and the dialogues by Tripurari Sharma. The film stars Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Milind Gunaji, Seema Biswas, Joy Sengupta and Nandita Das.[4] 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.