Holi (film)
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| Holi | |
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| Directed by | Ketan Mehta |
| Written by | Ketan Mehta |
| Starring | Aamir Khan Om Puri Naseeruddin Shah Ashutosh Gowariker Raj Zutshi |
| Release date(s) | 1984 |
| Running time | 120 mins |
| Language | Hindi |
Holi is a 1984 Indian film directed by Ketan Mehta and starring Aamir Khan, Ashutosh Gowariker, Om Puri, Shreeram Lagoo, Deepti Naval and Naseeruddin Shah. This film marked the adult film debut of Aamir Khan who later shot to fame with the 1988 blockbuster film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and Ashutosh Gowariker who went onto become a successful film director with the Oscar-nominated film Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (which Aamir Khan produced and starred in).
[edit] Plot summary
In a typical college in a typical Indian city, the hostel boys Madan Sharma (Aamir Khan) and his friends including Ranjeet Prakash (Ashutosh Gowariker) are a rowdy and troublesome lot. But on one particular day, when Madan and his friends find out there will not be a holiday for them on the day of Holi, the festival of colors, the boys decide not to attend the classes. The hostel superintendent Professor Singh (Naseeruddin Shah), the only lecturer with some links with the students, watches with apprehension their growing restlessness. A notice announcing a further postponement of examinations adds to the bitterness. A fight erupts out of nowhere between principal Phande's (Om Puri) nephew and another student, in which the principal's nephew is hurt and the other boy is promptly rusticated. This is seen as a drastic punishment, and the news spreads like wildfire to all the students of the college. Resistance is organized in the library, in the laboratory, in the classrooms and the college grounds as the students rebel against the principal.
Trivia: This movie was shot mainly on the Fergusson College, Pune,[1] grounds. The iconic Fergusson Banyan Tree had just fallen and Ketan Mehta who had studied at Fergusson improvised and picturised a song with the main chracters on the fallen tree singing about the falling of a symbolic 'system'.
[edit] External links
- Holi at the Internet Movie Database
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