Garm Hava (1973)
January 5, 1973Release Date
Garm Hava (1973)
January 5, 1973Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
A.K. Hangal
Gita Siddharth
Amina
Jamal Hashmi
Kazim
Yunus Parvez
Fakruddin
Jalal Agha
Shamshad
Shaukat Azmi
Vikas Anand
Rajendra Raghuvanshi
Balraj Sahni
Salim Mirza
Farooq Shaikh
Sikandar
Dinanath Zutshi
Halim
Ishan Arya
Director of Photography / Producer
M.S. Sathyu
Director / Producer
Kaifi Azmi
Lyricist / Dialogue / Screenplay / Songs
Chand
Assistant Makeup Artist
Y. L. Shinde
Assistant Sound Designer
Ravindra Gupta
Makeup Artist
Aziz Ahmed Khan Warsi
Playback Singer
Prema Kannan
Production Assistant
Hari Verma
Production Assistant
Kulbir Singh
Assistant Director
Sikander
Assistant Director of Photography
Hameed
Assistant Director of Photography
Madhav
Production Assistant
Ashok Gunjal
Assistant Director of Photography
Manoj Shanker
Assistant Music Supervisor
Ismat Chughtai
Original Story
Makhan Singh
Assistant Director
D. Naidu
Assistant Director of Photography
J. K. Mathur
Production Assistant
Ustad Bahadur Khan
Music
Shyam Arora
Rajan Verma
Abu Siwani
Executive Producer
C. M. Nagar
Raj Verma
B. P. Saxena
Ramma Bans
Shanta Agarwal
Badar Begum
Shama Zaidi
Screenplay
Kimti Anand
Rais Mirza
Mohini Mathur
R. S. Lal Mathur
Chand Ashfaq Ellahi
Javed Ellahi
Dinesh Sanyasi
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Details.
Release DateJanuary 5, 1973
Original Nameगर्म हवा
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 26m
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Garm Hava (translation: Hot Winds or Scorching Winds) is a 1973 Indian drama film directed by M. S. Sathyu, with Balraj Sahni as the lead actor.
It was written by Kaifi Azmi and Shama Zaidi, based on an unpublished short story by noted Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai. The film score was given by the classical musician Ustad Bahadur Khan, with lyrics by Kaifi Azmi. It also featured a qawwali composed and performed by Aziz Ahmed Khan Warsi and his Warsi Brothers troupe.
Set in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, the film deals with the plight of a North Indian Muslim businessman and his family, in the period after the 1947 Partition of India. Made with a shoestring budget, the entire film was shot on location in Agra. In the grim months after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, the film's protagonist and patriarch of the family, Salim Mirza, deals with the dilemma of whether to move to Pakistan, like many of his relatives, or stay back. The film details the slow disintegration of his family, and is one of the most poignant films made on India's partition. It remains one of the few serious films dealing with the post-Partition plight of Muslims in India.It is often credited with pioneering a new wave of art cinema in Hindi films, along with Ankur (1973), a film from another debutant director, Shyam Benegal. Both are considered landmarks of Parallel Cinema in Hindi. Parallel cinema had already started flourishing in other parts of India, especially in Bengal (notably in the works of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak) and Kerala. The movie launched the career of actor Farooq Shaikh, and marked the end of Balraj Sahni's film career, who died before its release. It was India's official entry to the Academy Award's Best Foreign Film category, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, won a National Film Award, and three Filmfare Awards. In 2005, Indiatimes Movies ranked the movie amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.