Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (English: The Mother of 1084) is a 1998 Indian feature film that deals with the life of a woman who loses her son, a Naxalite, to the violence that is a result of his adopted ideology.
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| Directed by | Govind Nihalani |
| Written by | Mahasweta Devi (novel) Govind Nihalani (screenplay) Tripurari Sharma (dialogues) |
| Produced by | Manmohan Shetty, Govind Nihalani |
| Starring | Jaya Bachchan Anupam Kher Joy Sengupta Nandita Das Seema Biswas Milind Gunaji Aditya Srivastava |
| Cinematography | Govind Nihalani |
| Edited by | Deepa Bhatia |
| Music by | Debajyoti Mishra |
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Running time | 152 min |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
The film is directed produced by Govind Nihalani and is based on Magsaysay and Jnanpith award recipient Mahasweta Devi's Bengali 1974 novel Hajar Churashir Maa (Bengali: হাজার চুরাশির মা). The screenplay is written by Nihalani and the dialogues by Tripurari Sharma. The film stars Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Milind Gunaji, Seema Biswas, Joy Sengupta and Nandita Das. It marks Jaya Bachchan's return to acting after a gap of 18 years.
In 1998, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.
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