Holi (1984 film)

Holi
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Directed by	Ketan Mehta
Written by	Ketan Mehta
Screenplay by	Mahesh Elkunchwar
Story by	Mahesh Elkunchwar (play)
Produced by	Pradeep Uppoor
Starring	Aamir Khan Om Puri Naseeruddin Shah Ashutosh Gowariker Raj Zutshi
Cinematography	Jehangir Choudhary
Edited by	Subhash Sehgal
Music by	Rajat Dholakia
Release date	15 August 1984 (1984-08-15)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Holi is a 1984 Indian coming-of-age drama film directed by Ketan Mehta, whose socially conscious work has been compared to American director Spike Lee.^[1] It is based on eponymous play by Marathi writer, Mahesh Elkunchwar.^[2] The film starred Aamir Khan, Ashutosh Gowariker, Om Puri, Shreeram Lagoo, Deepti Naval, Meena Phatak and Naseeruddin Shah.

Plot

In a typical college in a typical Indian city, the hostel boys Madan Sharma (Aamir Khan) and his friends including Ranjeet Prakash (Ashutosh Gowariker) are a rowdy and troublesome lot. But on one day, when Madan and his friends find out there will not be a holiday for them on the day of Holi, the festival of colors, the boys decide not to attend classes.

The hostel superintendent Professor Singh (Naseeruddin Shah), the only lecturer with some links with the students, watches with apprehension their growing restlessness. A notice announcing a further postponement of examinations adds to the bitterness. A fight erupts out of nowhere between principal Phande's (Om Puri) nephew and another student; the principal's nephew is hurt and the other boy is promptly rusticated. This is seen as a drastic punishment, and the news spreads like wildfire to all the students of the college. Resistance is organized in the library, in the laboratory, in the classrooms and the college grounds as the students rebel against the principal. The principal calls professor Singh to give the name of the troublemakers but he refuses, the names are later given by one of the classmates and soon the boys are sent a suspension notice.

On their last day, the classmate is bullied and humiliated by the boys. The next day they find out that their classmate has committed suicide and the film ends with the boys being taken in a police van while people dance to Holi outside.

Production

Holi was shot mainly on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune and Fergusson College, Pune. The iconic Fergusson College banyan tree had just fallen and Ketan Mehta, who had studied at Fergusson College, improvised and picturized a song with the main characters on the tree singing about the falling of a symbolic 'system'. This film was a part of the student project.

Cast

Naseeruddin Shah as Professor Singh
Aamir Khan as Madan Sharma (credited as Aamir Hussain)
Meena Phatak as College Student Meenakshi
Ashutosh Gowariker as Ranjeet Prakash
Om Puri as Principal Phande
Shreeram Lagoo
Deepti Naval as Professor Sehgal
Paresh Rawal
Mohan Gokhale
Rajendranath Zutshi
Neeraj Vora
Dina Pathak
Kitu Gidwani
Dilip Dhawan
Himanshu Trivedi Ji
Narendra Singh Arora

Reception

In 1985, Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the film a generally favorable review, writing that the "film, which the production notes report was largely improvised, is very decently and exuberantly performed by the non-professional actors."^[2]

Awards

1985: National Film Award for Best Cinematography: Jehangir Choudhary^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Overview, New York Times.
^ ^a ^b Holi (1984)- Movie Review, New York Times, 8 April 1985.

External links

Holi at IMDb

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