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Samaantar
DVD cover
Directed byAmol Palekar
Written bySandhya Gokhale
StarringAmol Palekar
Sharmila Tagore
Radhika Apte
Sameer Dharmadhikari
Kishore Kadam
Aishwarya Narkar
Makarand Deshpande
Vandana Gupte
CinematographyAsim Bose
Edited byAbhijeet Deshpande
Music byAnand Modak
Production
company
Distributed byBIG Pictures
Release date
  • 4 September 2009 (2009-09-04)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMarathi

Samaantar (translation: Parallel) is a 2009 Indian Marathi-language parallel film directed by Amol Palekar and written by Sandhya Gokhale. The film stars Amol Palekar and Sharmila Tagore in titular roles alongside Radhika Apte, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Kishore Kadam, Aishwarya Narkar, Makarand Deshpande and Vandana Gupte in pivotal roles. Palekar's previous film in the dual role of actor and director was Ankahee (1985).[1][2][3]

Plot

One needs a firm anchoring without which life gets scattered - just the way Keshav carried on for years. Keshav Vaze (Amol Palekar) is an eminent businessman who started his life struggle from a small village and is now an owner of his industrial empire. The business kept growing larger and larger making his days stacked with board meetings, conventions, tours, etc. Keshav became a dear public figure constantly surrounded by people... but the days ended in the cluttered darkness of his own melancholy. Years after years Keshav has hidden his grief within himself. On his 60th birthday, he decides to find serenity for himself and takes a major decision. Accidentally a slice of his frozen past gets scratched. Keshav suddenly has a glimpse of Shama (Sharmila Tagore), who was once the anchor of his existence. Her mesmerizing beauty, poise and silence suddenly personify his vacuum of last 30 years. Shama had chosen to be a recluse - hidden from the light of sunrise. Keshav strives to learn more about her. He realizes the mockery of their fate - both had drifted apart walking their separate paths... sharing their loneliness. Why did Keshav and Shama choose to live the way they did? What was the motivation behind their present? Do they find their lost love? Samaantar reveals lost traces of parallel folds!

Cast

Music

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. 28 August 2009. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Indian cinema not just about Bollywood: Amol Palekar". ZEE News. 5 September 2009. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2012.

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Films directed by Amol Palekar
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