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Paar poster
B
Strong
MASTER SCORE 64.3 / 100
1984·Drama·2h 21m

PAAR

When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.

Above the Line
Goutam Ghose·DirectorGoutam Ghose·ScreenplayPartha Banerjee·ScreenplayGoutam Ghose·Director of PhotographyGoutam Ghose·Original Music ComposerPrasanta Dey·Editor
Cast
Naseeruddin Shah·NaurangiaShabana Azmi·RamaUtpal Dutt·Bhola SinghOm Puri·RamnareshMohan Agashe·Hari SinghAnil Chatterjee·SchoolmasterRuma Guha ThakurtaSunil Mukherjee·ChamkuKamu Mukherjee·HeadmanMasood Akhtar
Full Crew
(30 credits)
Directing· 4
Goutam Ghose·DirectorMohan Koda·First Assistant DirectorSibaditya Dasgupta·Assistant DirectorSabyasachi Mukherjee·Assistant Director
Writing· 3
Goutam Ghose·ScreenplayPartha Banerjee·ScreenplaySurendra Pratap Singh·Dialogue
Camera· 4
Goutam Ghose·Director of PhotographySalim Sheikh·Assistant CameraDilip Banerjee·Assistant CameraNemai Ghosh·Still Photographer
Editing· 2
Prasanta Dey·EditorMoloy Banerjee·Assistant Editor
Sound & Music· 5
Goutam Ghose·Original Music ComposerM. Sheikh·SoundB. Chaturvedi·SoundAloknath Dey·OrchestratorRobin Sengupta·Sound
Art & Design· 6
Neelanjana Ghose·Costume DesignAshoke Bose·Art DirectionDebi Haldar·Makeup ArtistRam Naresh·SettingsBhola Malik·SettingsShatadal Mitra·Assistant Art Director
Production· 6
Swapan Sarkar·ProducerPanchu Gopal Naskar·Production AssistantKalyan Dasgupta·Production ExecutiveBhagirath Chakravorty·Production AssistantPaltu Das·Production AssistantDulal Saha·Production Assistant
By the Numbers
64.3
OF 100
Master Score
7.7
OF 10
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Worldwide Gross
0
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