Zara Si Zindagi
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| Directed by | K. Balachander |
| Produced by | R. Venkat Raman |
| Written by |
K. Balachander Gulzar (dialogues) |
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| Music by | Lakshmikant – Pyarelal |
| Cinematography | B. S. Loknath |
| Edited by | N.R. Kittoo |
| Distributed by | Premaalaya Productions |
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Release date
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7 January 1983 |
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Running time
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149 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
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| Soundtrack album by Laxmikant and Pyarelal | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Film soundtrack | |||
| Language | Hindi | |||
| Label | H.M.V. | |||
| Laxmikant and Pyarelal chronology | ||||
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Zara Si Zindagi (English: A Slice of Life) is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language film directed by K. Balachander, starring Kamal Haasan, Anita Raj, Nilu Phule, Mazhar Khan, Shriram Lagoo and Karan Razdan.
It is the remake of the Tamil film Varumayin Niram Sivappu (1980), also directed by Balachander. Zara Si Zindagi's story was written by Balachander while the dialogues were written by Gulzar.
Rakesh (Kamal Haasan), a young M.A. in philosophy comes to Delhi from Bihar looking for a job. Rakesh along with his friend Amit of Bengal (Karan Razdan) lives in a slum. One day Amit’s friend Tilak from Punjab (Arjun Chakraborty) goes to that dilapidated cottage for staying where Rakesh and Amit reside. The three men share everything that they get to eat and starve for food on most days. Rakesh sudden on a day sees a girl named Kusum (Anita Raj) where he finds her in a bus stop waiting for the next bus towards railway station, Rakesh offers her to carry the luggage of her till railway station as bus-service is closed and taxi-drivers are on strikes on that day. On reaching the railway station, Kusum pays Rakesh to which he replies that he has no change. She rebukes him in Punjabi language assuming he does not speak the language that he is trying to cheat her. Rakesh tells her that he knows Punjabi.
Rakesh once chases a man (Nilu Phule) to his house to get back the 15 rupees which he looted from him by lying. The man enters a house, Rakesh follows him by running after him and reaches till that house and Kusum opens the door after knocking. Rakesh comes to know that the man is Kusum’s father. Rakesh tells about the money and Kusum returns the money to Rakesh. Kusum is a small-time stage actress. Kusum goes to Rakesh’s house to introduce him to her stage play director to replace an ill actor so that he could earn some money as she came to know that Rakesh is an unemployed man. Kusum introduces Rakesh to her stage-director Pratap (Mazhar Khan) who is arrogant and short-tempered. Pratap has an obsession for Kusum. Pratap can’t tolerate intimation between Rakesh and Kusum. Pratap throws out Rakesh from stage drama acting because of disobeying him. Rakesh does not take the post of a clerk of a company after misbehaving with interview-takers and tears his certificates of educational qualifications.
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