Masoom
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Masoom is a 1983 Indian
film and Shekhar Kapur
's first directorial venture. The critically acclaimed film starred Naseeruddin Shah
, Shabana Azmi
, Tanuja, Supriya Pathak
and Saeed Jaffrey
, as well as child actors Jugal Hansraj
, Aradhana and Urmila Matondkar
. The screenplay and dialogues were written by Gulzar
and the music was contributed by R.D. Burman. The plot was broadly based on Man, Woman and Child
written by Erich Segal
.
Shekhar Kapoor the director of the movie went on to make several other internationally acclaimed movies in the future like, Bandit Queen
and Elizabeth
.
) and D.K. Malhotra (DK - Naseeruddin Shah
) have a happy marriage and have 2 daughters - Pinky (Urmila Matondkar
) & Minni (Aradhana). The tranquility of their life is shattered when DK receives word that he has a son - from a short-term affair with Bhavana (Supriya Pathak
) during his visit to Nainital when his wife Indu was about to give birth to their first child (Pinky). Bhavana did not tell DK years about this since she did not want to disturb DK's life. Now that she is dead, her guardian Master ji (Paidi Jairaj
) sends word to DK in Mumbai saying that the boy, Rahul (Jugal Hansraj
), who is 5 years old now, is in need of a home. Despite the objections of Indu, who is devastated to learn of her husband's unfaithfulness, the boy comes to stay with them in Delhi for some time. Rahul is never told that DK is actually his father. Rahul bonds with Indu and DK's daughters and even with DK. But Indu can't bear to look at Rahul, who she sees him as a tangible reminder of DK's betrayal.
DK, worried by the effect that Rahul is having on his family, decides to put the latter in a boarding school in St. Joseph's College, Nainital, which Rahul accepts with reluctance. After gaining admission at the school and returning to Delhi before his permanent move to Nainital, Rahul figures out that DK is his father and runs away from home. After he is escorted home by a police officer, Rahul confesses his awareness of the identity of his father to Indu. Indu is unable to bear the heartbreak of the young child and intercepts Rahul before he is put onto the train to Nainital, thereby accepting Rahul into the family and wholeheartedly forgiving DK.
"Others"
Filmfare Awards
Cinema of India
The cinema of India consists of films produced across India, which includes the cinematic culture of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal. Indian films came to be followed throughout South Asia and...
film and Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director and producer. A critically acclaimed director, he rose to popularity with the movie Bandit Queen...
's first directorial venture. The critically acclaimed film starred Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian / Bollywood film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.-Early life:...
, Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and...
, Tanuja, Supriya Pathak
Supriya Pathak
Supriya Pathak Kapur is an Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi and Idhar Udhar.-Family:...
and Saeed Jaffrey
Saeed Jaffrey
Saeed Jaffrey OBE is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab...
, as well as child actors Jugal Hansraj
Jugal Hansraj
Jugal Hansraj is an Indian actor and director based at Mumbai.Hansraj started his career as a child artiste in the 1983 film Masoom, which starred Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. The film was about a 9-year-old boy whose stepmother was not willing to accept him into the family because he was...
, Aradhana and Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar is an Indian film actress.Matondkar, who made her screen debut as a child artist in the 1980 film Kalyug, debuted as an adult in Narasimha...
. The screenplay and dialogues were written by Gulzar
Gulzar (lyricist)
Sampooran Singh Kalra , known popularly by his pen name Gulzar , is an Indian poet, lyricist and director. He primarily writes in Hindi-Urdu and has also written in Punjabi and several dialects of Hindi such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in...
and the music was contributed by R.D. Burman. The plot was broadly based on Man, Woman and Child
Man, Woman and Child
Man, Woman and Child is a novel by Erich Segal. It details the lives of Robert and Sheila Beckwith and their daughters Jessica and Paula.- Synopsis :...
written by Erich Segal
Erich Segal
Erich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story , a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit....
.
Shekhar Kapoor the director of the movie went on to make several other internationally acclaimed movies in the future like, Bandit Queen
Bandit Queen
Bandit Queen is a 1994 Indian film based upon the life of Phoolan Devi. It was directed by Shekhar Kapur and starred Seema Biswas as the title character. It was produced by Bobby Bedi's Kaleidoscope Entertainment.The Music was Composed by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.- Plot :The film opens in the...
and Elizabeth
Elizabeth (film)
Elizabeth is a 1998 biographical film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud, Fanny Ardant and Richard Attenborough...
.
Plot
Indu (Shabana AzmiShabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and...
) and D.K. Malhotra (DK - Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian / Bollywood film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.-Early life:...
) have a happy marriage and have 2 daughters - Pinky (Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar is an Indian film actress.Matondkar, who made her screen debut as a child artist in the 1980 film Kalyug, debuted as an adult in Narasimha...
) & Minni (Aradhana). The tranquility of their life is shattered when DK receives word that he has a son - from a short-term affair with Bhavana (Supriya Pathak
Supriya Pathak
Supriya Pathak Kapur is an Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi and Idhar Udhar.-Family:...
) during his visit to Nainital when his wife Indu was about to give birth to their first child (Pinky). Bhavana did not tell DK years about this since she did not want to disturb DK's life. Now that she is dead, her guardian Master ji (Paidi Jairaj
Paidi Jairaj
Paidi Jairaj, Jayraj or Jai Raj was a renowned film actor, director and producer. He was recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement in 1980.-Brief lifesketch:...
) sends word to DK in Mumbai saying that the boy, Rahul (Jugal Hansraj
Jugal Hansraj
Jugal Hansraj is an Indian actor and director based at Mumbai.Hansraj started his career as a child artiste in the 1983 film Masoom, which starred Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. The film was about a 9-year-old boy whose stepmother was not willing to accept him into the family because he was...
), who is 5 years old now, is in need of a home. Despite the objections of Indu, who is devastated to learn of her husband's unfaithfulness, the boy comes to stay with them in Delhi for some time. Rahul is never told that DK is actually his father. Rahul bonds with Indu and DK's daughters and even with DK. But Indu can't bear to look at Rahul, who she sees him as a tangible reminder of DK's betrayal.
DK, worried by the effect that Rahul is having on his family, decides to put the latter in a boarding school in St. Joseph's College, Nainital, which Rahul accepts with reluctance. After gaining admission at the school and returning to Delhi before his permanent move to Nainital, Rahul figures out that DK is his father and runs away from home. After he is escorted home by a police officer, Rahul confesses his awareness of the identity of his father to Indu. Indu is unable to bear the heartbreak of the young child and intercepts Rahul before he is put onto the train to Nainital, thereby accepting Rahul into the family and wholeheartedly forgiving DK.
Cast
- Naseeruddin ShahNaseeruddin ShahNaseeruddin Shah is an Indian / Bollywood film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.-Early life:...
... D.K. Malhotra (DK) - Shabana AzmiShabana AzmiShabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and...
... Indu Malhotra - Supriya PathakSupriya PathakSupriya Pathak Kapur is an Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi and Idhar Udhar.-Family:...
... Bhavana - Jugal HansrajJugal HansrajJugal Hansraj is an Indian actor and director based at Mumbai.Hansraj started his career as a child artiste in the 1983 film Masoom, which starred Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. The film was about a 9-year-old boy whose stepmother was not willing to accept him into the family because he was...
... Rahul Malhotra - Urmila MatondkarUrmila MatondkarUrmila Matondkar is an Indian film actress.Matondkar, who made her screen debut as a child artist in the 1980 film Kalyug, debuted as an adult in Narasimha...
... Pinky Malhotra - Aradhana ... Minni Malhotra
- Tanuja ... Chanda
- Saeed JaffreySaeed JaffreySaeed Jaffrey OBE is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab...
... Suri - Paidi JairajPaidi JairajPaidi Jairaj, Jayraj or Jai Raj was a renowned film actor, director and producer. He was recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement in 1980.-Brief lifesketch:...
... Master Ji
"Others"
- Satish KaushikSatish KaushikSatish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre.As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India, and as 'Chanu Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane...
- Aziz Qureshi
- Pran Talwar
- Ram Gopal Bajaj
- Anila Singh
- A. Kukereja
- Malaviya Singh
- Aparna Katara
- Boksh
- V. Punjwani
- Abdul
- Bijon Das Gupta
Soundtrack
| Song | Singer(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Do Naina Aur Ek Kahani | Aarti Mukherjee | |
| Huzur Is Kadar | Bhupinder, Suresh Wadkar Suresh Wadkar Suresh Ishwar Wadkar is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films.He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films and in Konkani.- Early life :... |
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| Lakdi Ki Kathi (female,female,male) | Gauri Bapat, Gurpreet Kaur, Vanita Mishra | |
| Tujhse Naraz (male) | Anup Ghoshal Anup Ghoshal Anup Ghoshal , is a singer in Hindi films and other vernacular Indian films, especially Bengali language films. He won the West Bengal Assembly elections of 2011 on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Uttarpara in Hooghly district, defeating his nearest rival by a large margin of 40, 000... |
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| Tujhse Naraz (female) | Lata Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional... |
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Awards
National Award- Best Female Playback Singer -- Aarti MukherjiAarti MukherjiAarti Mukherji is a Bengali playback singer who has also sung in Hindi films such as Geet Gata Chal , Tapasya , Manokamana and Masoom ....
Filmfare Awards
- Best Actor -- Naseeruddin ShahNaseeruddin ShahNaseeruddin Shah is an Indian / Bollywood film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.-Early life:...
- Best Music Director -- R.D. Burman
- Best Lyricist -- Gulzar for Tujhse Naraaz Nahin
- Best Female Playback Singer -- Aarti MukherjiAarti MukherjiAarti Mukherji is a Bengali playback singer who has also sung in Hindi films such as Geet Gata Chal , Tapasya , Manokamana and Masoom ....
for Do Naina Ek Kahani
Nominations
Filmfare Awards- Best Film
- Best Director -- Shekhar KapurShekhar KapurShekhar Kapur is an Indian film director and producer. A critically acclaimed director, he rose to popularity with the movie Bandit Queen...
- Best Actress -- Shabana AzmiShabana AzmiShabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and...