Masoom (1983 film)

Masoom
Poster
Directed byShekhar Kapur
Screenplay byGulzar
Based onMan, Woman and Child
by Erich Segal
Produced byChanda Dutt
Devi Dutt
StarringNaseeruddin Shah
Shabana Azmi
Jugal Hansraj
Urmila Matondkar
CinematographyPravin Bhatt
Edited byAruna Raje
Vikas Desai
Music byR D Burman
Distributed byBombino Video Pvt. Ltd.
Release date
  • 21 October 1983 (1983-10-21)
(India)
Running time
165 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Masoom (transl. The Innocent) is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language drama film, the directorial debut of Shekhar Kapur.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1980 Erich Segal novel Man, Woman and Child, which was also adapted into a Malayalam movie Olangal and an American movie Man, Woman and Child.[2][3] The film stars Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi in lead roles along with Tanuja, Supriya Pathak and Saeed Jaffrey. It features Jugal Hansraj, Aradhana and Urmila Matondkar as child actors. The screenplay, dialogues and lyrics are by Gulzar with music by R.D. Burman. The film has been remade into a Telugu movie named Illalu Priyuralu and in Turkish as Bir Akşam Üstü.

  1. ^ Andrea LeVasseur (2007). "Shekhar Kapur – Biography". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 October 2007. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference toi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Children's Day: Seven films to bring out the innocent child in you". CNN-IBN. 14 November 2012. Archived from the original on 7 September 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.