Mangala Talkies

Ep 5: Garm Hava (1974) | M.S. Sathyu | Balraj Sahni | Geeta Kak| Farooq Shaikh| Kaifi Azmi | Shama Zaidi


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Best film made on the partition. One of the best films made in India. One of the best films made in India in 1970s. In case of the film under discussion today, these are not some vacuous headlines on its DVD cover. But these are legitimate claims that this film can made. We are of course talking about 'Garm Hava'


Garm Hava was released in May 1974.


Directed by M.S. Sathyu


Story and Screenplay by Kaifi Azmi and Shama Zaidi


Dialogues by Kaifi Azmi, and Story by Ismat Chughtai


The film has stellar cast which includes Balraj Sahni, A.K. Hangal, Geeta Kak, Yunus Parvez and many more very talented actors.


The film deals with the plight of a North Indian Muslim family - Mirza family, in post-partition India in 1947-48. As the protagonist - mainly Balraj Sahni, deals with his dilemma of whether to move to Pakistan or stay behind, the film details the slow disintegration of his family and the plight of Muslims in post-partition India.


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