Kamla Ki Maut

Kamla Ki Maut
Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Produced by NFDC
Screenplay by Basu Chatterjee
Story by Swaraj Bandyopadhyay
Starring Pankaj Kapoor
Supriya Pathak
Roopa Ganguly
Music by Salil Chowdhury
Cinematography Ajay Prabhakar
Edited by Kamal Saigal
Release dates
1989
Running time
95 min.
Country India
Language Hindi

Kamla Ki Maut (Death of Kamla) is a 1989 Hindi drama film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film set in Mumbai, deals with issue of love, pre-marital sex and relationships in modern India. It stars Pankaj Kapoor, Supriya Pathak and Roopa Ganguly in lead roles.[1]

At the 36th Filmfare Awards the film won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Basu Chatterjee.[2] In 2013, to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema, National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) in partnership with Shemaroo, released a digitally re-mastered print of the film under "Cinemas of India" label.[3]

Plot

The film is set in a lower middle class chawl, an apartment building in Mumbai, a 20-year-old and unmarried Kamla, unable to handle the news of her pregnancy commits suicide. This makes her neighbourhood examine their own secrets and the choices they have made in their own lives.

Cast

Production

The film was shot at Gopal Bhawan, a residential building at Mangalwadi in Girgaum, besides Natraj Studio and R. K. Studio in Mumbai.

References

  1. "Movie: Kamla Ki Maut". India Today. 15 December 1990. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  2. "Best Screenplay Award". Filmfare Award Official Listings, Indiatimes. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  3. Narayan, Hari (29 July 2013). "Revisiting the masters". The Hindu. Retrieved 2014-04-28.

External links

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