Hava Aney Dey

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Hava Aney Dey

Film poster
Directed by Partho Sen-Gupta
Starring Aniket Vishwasrao, Nishikant Kamat, Tannistha Chatterjee, Rajshree Thakur
Music by Eryck Abecassis
Cinematography Jean-Marc Ferriére
Running time 93 minutes
Country France-India
Language Hindi
IMDb profile

Fiction Feature Film / 93 mins / 35mm / Hindi stl-English / French / German / 2004

Hava Aney Dey (English Title: Let the Wind Blow) was shot on location, in the northern suburbs (Vikhroli and Andheri East) of Mumbai - India, in October – November 2003 with a mixed crew composed of French & Indian technicians. It is an Indo-French co production between Santocha Productions, Paris and Mystique Media Ltd, Mumbai. It is also funded partly by the Fonds Sud, of the French Foreign Ministry and the French Cultural Ministry. It was post produced partly in Mumbai and Paris.

It premièred at the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) in 2004 and won awards at other important International Film Festivals.

Hava Aney Dey is part of the Global Film Initiative's Global Lens 2008 Film Lineup of ten award-winning narrative, feature films from Argentina, China, Croatia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Philippines and South Africa. Global Lens 2008, now in its fifth year, will première at the Museum of Modern Art, (MOMA) New York in January, before embarking on year-long tour of over thirty cities across the United States.

The Indian Film Censor Board refused to give it a release certificate without a long list of sound and picture cuts reducing about 20 minutes of the film. The director refused to accept the censor decision, as it would destroy the film with the abrupt cuts and sound mutes. The film was never released in India.

The film was also never officially screened in India as it was pulled out at the last minute (despite the selection by the festival) from the Cinefan film festival in New Delhi in 2005 by the Censors. Indian Film-makers, artists, writers opposed to censorship continue to fight for the freedom to express themselves.

Also read: Censorship in India

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[edit] Synopsis

(from left)Chinmay Kelkar, Aniket Vishwasrao & Tejas Parvatkar in Hava Aney Dey
(from left)Chinmay Kelkar, Aniket Vishwasrao & Tejas Parvatkar in Hava Aney Dey

India is in the throes of the new global economy. The new capitalist order is changing people’s lives. But a new war of ideals is separating the old values from the new… There is also the war with Pakistan…the two brothers who are fighting for Kashmir. The two countries have equipped themselves with Oppenheimer’s deadly toy…

Arjun, 18 years old, lives in the northern suburbs of Bombay with his widowed mother Sheela, who works hard to make ends meet. She has one goal in life that Arjun gets a diploma and a good job. Arjun is attracted to Salma, a girl from a Muslim upper class family. Somewhere Arjun knows that she is beyond his reach.

Chabia, 21 yrs old, is Arjun’s best friend, a mechanic in a garage. Chabia loves Mona, a dancer in a cabaret bar. Chabia hates seeing those rich men showering her with money as she dances for them. She wants to go and work in Dubai. Rohit, a rich young boy brings his BMW car to service it in Chabia’s garage. Chabia fixes his car with some cheap spares that he has procured from some dubious sources.

Rajshree Thakur in Hava Aney Dey
Rajshree Thakur in Hava Aney Dey

Rohit is happy and invites Chabia for a drink in a posh club in downtown Bombay. Chabia thinks that this is an opportunity for him to meet people from the upper class. But things turn out badly for them and the bouncers beat them up. Rohit does not help them. The tensions on the border increase…the military build-up intensifies. Both countries test their intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Chabia steals money from his brother and plans to run away with Mona and start a new life. But she has cold feet at the last minute and goes off to work in the cabarets of Dubai. Arjun fails his diploma examination as he tries to cheat using fake examination papers that Chabia had procured for him. The two friends want to do something to leave this climate of despair. An old friend returns from abroad, with stories of his fortunes. He was going to retire in a few years. He had made his money. Chabia tries to convince Arjun to go abroad with him, but Arjun does not want to leave his mother alone. Chabia & Arjun decide to meet an employment agent who promises them jobs for a huge fee. Chabia manages to arrange for his fee but Arjun cannot manage his. Chabia tells him to ask his mother Sheela to lend him the money. At first, Sheela is very angry but finally succumbs to her son’s demand.

The day before their departure, they celebrate their farewell. The mood is upbeat.

They are going to be the masters of their destinies. But, can they rewrite their destiny?

[edit] Film Festival Selection

  • Awards:

    • Best Film Award (Durban International Film Festival)

    • BBC Audience Award (Commonwealth Film Festival)

    • Special Jury Mention (Hong Kong International Film Festival)

[edit] Full Cast

  • Aniket Vishwasrao... Arjun
  • Nishikant Kamat... Chabia
  • Tanishta Chatterjee...Mona
  • Rajshree Thakur... Salma
  • Hridaynath Jadhav... Anil
  • Yogesh Vinayak Joshi...Yogi
  • Chinmay Kelkar ... Sanju
  • Tejas D. Parvatkar ... Sudhir
  • Deepak Qazir ...Employment Agent
  • Niaal Saad ... Rohit
  • Pubali Sanyal ... Illa
  • Ganesh Yadav ...Sudhakar

[edit] Production Credits

Story and Direction Partho Sen-Gupta

Screenplay and Dialogues Yogesh Vinayak Joshi & Partho Sen-Gupta

Producer Marie-Cécile Destandau

Executive producer Rakesh Mehra

Co-producer Brij Rathi

Original Music by Eryck Abecassis

Cinematography by Jean-Marc Ferriere

Film Editing by Annick Raoul

Casting by Yogesh Vinayak Joshi

Production Design by Agnes Vergne

Sound Designer Nikolas Javelle

Location Sound Jacques Sans

Re-recordist Nathalie Vidal

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