Samaantar

Samaantar

DVD cover
Directed by Amol Palekar
Written by Sandhya Gokhale
Starring Amol Palekar
Sharmila Tagore
Music by Anand Modak
Cinematography Asim Bose
Edited by Abhijit Deshpande
Production
company
Reliance Big Pictures
Distributed by Reliance Big Pictures
Release dates
  • 4 September 2009
Running time
105 minutes
Country India
Language Marathi

Samaantar (Parallel) is a 2009 Marathi film directed by Amol Palekar and starring Palekar himself and Sharmila Tagore in the lead roles.[1] This is Sharmila's first Marathi film. Director Amol Palekar's previous film in the dual role of actor-director was Ankahee (1985).[2][3]

Plot

Keshav Vaze (Amol Palekar) is an eminent businessman who has grown into an industrialist struggling through his life, rising from a small village. He is separated from his college sweetheart Shama (Sharmila Tagore) due to an earthquake in which he loses his family & is left to take care of several young siblings, cousins. Shama is bearing a child of Keshav & goes into a state of shock and dismay when he does not return for months at end. When Keshav returns he does not find Shama where he left her and assumes she is dead after a few years. At his 60th birthday, a glimpse of Shama strikes him of how he and his yesteryear soulmate have walked on different and parallel ways.

Cast

References

  1. "A challenging role". The Hindu. 27 August 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  2. "Amol won't play Salman's dad!". The Times of India. Aug 28, 2009.
  3. "Indian cinema not just about Bollywood: Amol Palekar". ZEE News. September 5, 2009.

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