Masoom

Name: Masoom
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Released: 1983-01-01

Hindi film

FilmfilmQ660727

Released: 1983
Director: Shekhar Kapur
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Screenwriter: Gulzar
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah
, Shabana Azmi
, Jugal Hansraj
, Urmila Matondkar
+5 more
Runtime: 165 min
Genre: children's film
, drama film
Country of origin: India
Original language: Hindi

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Masoom is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language drama film, the directorial debut of Shekhar Kapur. It is an adaptation of the 1980 Erich Segal novel Man, Woman and Child, which was also adapted into a Malayalam movie Olangal and an American movie Man, Woman and Child. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Saeed Jaffrey in lead roles, with Tanuja and Supriya Pathak in special appearances. It features Urmila Matondkar, Aradhana and Jugal Hansraj in their debuts as child actors. The screenplay, dialogues and lyrics are by Gulzar with music by R.D. Burman. The film has been remade into a Telugu movie named Illalu Priyuralu and in Turkish as Bir Akşam Üstü.

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Based on: Man, Woman and Child
Director of photography: Pravin Bhatt
Narrative location: Delhi
Title: मासूम
After a work by: Erich Segal
Color: color
Film editor: Aruna Raje
Distribution format: video on demand
Has characteristic: film based on a literary work

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