Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa DVD cover
Directed by	Govind Nihalani
Produced by	Manmohan Shetty, Govind Nihalani
Written by	Mahasweta Devi (novel) Govind Nihalani (screenplay) Tripurari Sharma (dialogues)
Starring	Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Joy Sengupta, Nandita Das, Seema Biswas, Milind Gunaji
Music by	Debjyoti Mishra
Cinematography	Govind Nihalani
Editing by	Deepa Bhatia
Release date(s)	March 20, 1998 (India)
Running time	152 min
Country
Language	Hindi

Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) (Hindi: हज़ार चौरासी की माँ; English: The Mother of Corpse No. 1084) is an Indian feature film that deals with the life of a woman who loses her son, a Naxalite, to the violence that is a result of his adopted ideology.

The film is directed by Govind Nihalani and is based on Magsaysay and Jnanpith award recipient Mahasweta Devi's Bengali novel Hajar Churashir Ma. The screenplay is written by Nihalani and the dialogues by Tripurari Sharma. The film stars Jaya Bachchan as Sujata Chatterjee, Anupam Kher as Dibyanath Chatterjee, Milind Gunaji as Inspector Saroj Pal, Seema Biswas as Somu's mother, Joy Sengupta as Brati Chatterjee and Nandita Das as Nandini Mitra. It marks Jaya Bachchan's return to acting after a gap of 18 years.

In 1998, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

[edit] Cast of characters

• Jaya Bachchan as Sujata Chatterjee
• Anupam Kher as Dibyanath Chatterjee
• Joy Sengupta as Brati Chatterjee
• Seema Biswas as Somu's mother
• Nandita Das as Nandini Mitra
• Milind Gunaji as Inspector Saroj Pal
• Mona Ambegaonkar as Jyoti's wife
• Sandeep Kulkarni as Nitu Paul
• Bhakti Barve
• Aditya Srivastava
• Yashpal Sharma

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa at the Internet Movie Database

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