Party (1984 film)
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| Directed by | Govind Nihalani |
| Produced by | NFDC |
| Written by |
Govind Nihalani (screenplay) Mahesh Elkunchwar (play) Vasant Dev (asst. dialogue) |
| Starring |
Manohar Singh Vijaya Mehta Rohini Hattangadi Om Puri Naseeruddin Shah |
| Cinematography | Govind Nihalani |
| Edited by | Renu Saluja |
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Release date
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1984 |
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Running time
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118 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Party is a 1984 Hindi film directed by Govind Nihalani. The film is a sequel to the 1983 film Ardh Satya and boasted an ensemble cast of leading art cinema actors of Parallel Cinema, including Vijaya Mehta, Manohar Singh, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, and Rohini Hattangadi. It based on the play Party (1976) by Mahesh Elkunchwar.
The movie was produced by National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC). Party was the official Indian entry to the 32nd International Film Festival of India, New Delhi, and also took part in the Tokyo Film Festival 1985 and Asia Pacific Film Festival 1985.
Shot in real-time, lasting most of an evening, except for a few initial scenes to set the context — which show the people who attend just before going to the party: getting ready, looking forward to going, or cribbing about having to go — and a harrowing finale.
The film is a deeply intelligent satire aimed at the urban elite — especially those poseurs with artistic inclinations, namely establishment-artists and their patrons. It depicts their apathy towards the society at large while they get away, by the way of small talk and prosaic conversations at parties.
The power of the movie derives from Elkunchwar's play — which had a very successful run in Marathi theatres in Pune and Bombay, before Govind Nihalani turned it, with the author's active participation, into a screenplay.
Nihalani had just made Ardh-Satya — which had been a surprise break-away hit for alternative cinema (or Parallel Cinema as it is called in India) and it was easier for him to get generous financing from the government public sector company NFDC (declared bankrupt and closed soon after the assassination of art movie aficionado Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi).
There is some speculation that it was not being offered a role in this movie, and two others, which so disillusioned art house diva Smita Patil that she switched to doing mainstream Bollywood movies.
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