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Overview

User Rating:
5.9/10   2,072 votes
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Director:
Roland Joffé
Writers (WGA):
Dominique LaPierre (book)
Mark Medoff (screenplay)
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Release Date:
15 April 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
True heroism lies in the quality of the struggle. more
Plot:
Hazari Pal lives in a small village in Bihar, India, with his dad, mom, wife, Kamla, daughter, Amrita... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
only a father will understand more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Patrick Swayze ... Max Lowe

Om Puri ... Hazari Pal
Pauline Collins ... Joan Bethel

Shabana Azmi ... Kamla H. Pal

Ayesha Dharker ... Amrita H. Pal
Santu Chowdhury ... Shambu H. Pal
Imran Badsah Khan ... Manooj H. Pal
Art Malik ... Ashok Ghatak
Nabil Shaban ... Anouar
Debatosh Ghosh ... Ram Chander
Suneeta Sengupta ... Poomina
Mansi Upadhyay ... Meeta
Shyamanand Jalan ... Ghatak - Godfather
Shyamal Sengupta ... Gangooly - Con man
Rudraprasad Sengupta ... Chomotkar
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
La cité de la joie (France)
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Runtime:
132 min
Country:
France | UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Trivia:
Among the problems that beset the production were fire-bombings, mass demonstrations, media criticism, accusations of murder, a skyrocketing budget that eventually settled at the $27 million mark, and Warner Brothers' 11th hour pullout that nearly bankrupted the producers. more
Quotes:
Hasari Pal: All that is not given is lost. more
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Referenced in Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct' (2001) (V) more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
only a father will understand, 5 December 2007
10/10
Author: knh69 from Kuwait

A movie that will carry you to a new place & a new culture you will carry your tears, anger & hope along till the end watching it. The smell of the Indian dust, The pain of the people, The discrepancy between even the poor, A story about a man running to provide the food for his family beside saving money to marry his daughter. A lot of high temper feelings & emotions, you cant stop your eyes from falling. beside talking about the unjust of human beens in isolating a group of innocent people who their fault is that they are not born in complete bodies, the white man in the story who is a doctor failed in the medicine job in his country and ran to India where he found his real soul also show us how we sometimes see the world from one view while it can be seen from a better view, I don't understand why it wasn't dominated for an Oscar. excuse my English & thanks for reading my view.

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