Main Azaad Hoon
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| Directed by | Tinnu Anand |
| Written by | Javed Akhtar |
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Amitabh Bachchan Shabana Azmi |
| Music by | Amar Biswas Utpal Biswas |
| Distributed by | Nadiadwala Sons |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Main Azaad Hoon is a 1989 thriller drama Hindi film, an Indian adaptation of 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe by Javed Akhtar about an opportunistic journalist who concocts a fictitious man in a fictitious article to boost newspaper sales, but when the article gets huge response, she finds an unemployed man to sit in as Azaad, "man of the masses". The film was directed by Tinnu Anand, and starred Amitabh Bachchan and Shabana Azmi.
The film has only one song "Itne Baazu Itne Sar" written by Shabana Azmi's real life father and noted poet Kaifi Azmi and sung by the lead actor himself, Amitabh Bachchan.
The film won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue for Javed Akhtar.
The movie begins with a female journalist named Subhashini (Shabana Azmi) working for a daily newspaper in a city named Rajnagar. She is deemed controversial due to her bold and open mouthed articles against corrupt politicians.
After a change in the ownership of the newspaper, she realises that she stands to lose her job along with many others, especially who are not likely to subscribe to the new management's policies. Feeling betrayed she vents out her frustration by penning her column with a fictitious letter ad verbatim, which is supposedly written to her by someone named Azaad. This letter openly criticises the establishment and the chasm that exists between the haves and the have nots, vocalising unacknowledged and uncomfortable facts. The letter also says that the author of the letter would commit suicide from a high-rise building on 26 January, the Republic Day of India, as a mark of protest against a failed system. The letter creates a sensation among political leaders, businessmen and the public.
In this new development, the new owner, Seth Gokulchand (Manohar Singh), senses an opportunity. He thinks of a scheme to promote his newspaper and coaxes Subhashini to establish a column in the name of Azaad and write about the ills of the present society and administration. The task for them now is to find a face and character for Azaad, should the question arise about the real identity of the author of the column and the letter.
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