| Mrityudand | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Prakash Jha[1] |
| Screenplay by | Prakash Jha |
| Produced by | Prakash Jha |
| Starring | Madhuri Dixit Shabana Azmi Ayub Khan Mohan Agashe Om Puri Mohan Joshi |
| Cinematography | Rajan Kinagi Rajan Kothari |
| Edited by | Prakash Jha |
| Music by | Anand–Milind |
Release date |
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Running time | 161 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹50 million[2] |
| Box office | ₹80 million[3] |
Mrityudand (transl. Death Sentence) is an Indian Hindi drama film released in 1997. It was directed and produced by Prakash Jha and stars Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Ayub Khan, Mohan Agashe and Om Puri.
The film is a commentary on the social and the gender injustice.[4] As in his other movies, filmmaker Prakash Jha has focussed on the social problems that plague his native state of Bihar, India, and like his other movies this one straddles the boundary between art film and commercial film. The film also boasted of some semi-classical music, tuned by Anand–Milind and Raghunath Seth and worded by Javed Akhtar. The film was critically acclaimed and is considered to be one of Madhuri Dixit's best performances.[5][6][7]
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