| Main Azaad Hoon | |
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| Directed by | Tinnu Anand |
| Written by | Javed Akhtar |
| Produced by | H. A. Nadiadwala |
| Starring | Amitabh Bachchan Shabana Azmi |
| Music by | Amar Biswas Utpal Biswas |
| Distributed by | Nadiadwala Sons |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Main Azaad Hoon (transl. I am Free) is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language vigilante film adapted from the 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe, by Javed Akhtar, about an opportunistic journalist who concocts a fictitious man in a fictitious article to boost newspaper sales, but when the article gets a huge response, she finds an unemployed man to sit in as Azaad, "man of the masses". The film was directed by Tinnu Anand, and stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shabana Azmi.[1][2]
The film has only one song; "Itne Baazu Itne Sar", written by Shabana Azmi's real life father and noted poet Kaifi Azmi and sung by the lead actor himself, Amitabh Bachchan.[3]
The film won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue for Akhtar.
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- ^ "Cinemascoop". The Tribune. 20 February 2005.
- ^ "IT'S A MAN'S WORLD". Screen. 23 April 2010. Archived from the original on 4 May 2010.