Maya (1993)

Director:

Ketan Mehta

Writers:

Gustave Flaubert (based on "Madame Bovary")
Sitanshu Yashaschandra (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

2 July 1993 (India)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

A frustrated housewife whose marriage to an average man does not meet her expectations enters into an affair with a younger man. Of course, there are no easy escapes from reality.

Plot Keywords:

India | Marriage | Self Destructiveness | Police Investigation | Sex

Cast

Deepa Sahi	...	Maya
Farooq Shaikh	...	Dr. Charu Das (as Farooque Shaikh)
Raj Babbar	...	Rudra
Shah Rukh Khan	...	Lalit
Shreeram Lagoo		(as Dr. Shree Ram Lagoo)
Sudha Shivpuri
Paresh Rawal	...	Lalaji (as Paresh Raval)
Raghuvir Yadav
Satyadev Dubey
Shri Vallabh Vyas		(as Shrivallabh Vyas)
Arvind Vaidya
Manish Nagpal
Rajesh Vivek
Idries Malik		(as Idris Malik)
Alpana Upadhyay
Farah	...	Chhaya (as Baby Farah)
Om Puri
Anil Gupta

Directed by
Ketan Mehta

Writing credits
Gustave Flaubert		(based on "Madame Bovary")
Sitanshu Yashaschandra		(screenplay) and
Ketan Mehta		(screenplay)
Hriday Lani		(dialogue)
Gulan Kriplani		(Maya's monologues)

Produced by
Gabriel Auer	....	executive producer: France
David Aukin	....	executive producer: UK
Vikram Mehrohtra	....	executive producer
Ketan Mehta	....	producer
Paul Saadoun	....	executive producer: France

Original Music by
Hridaynath Mangeshkar

Cinematography by
Anoop Jotwani

Film Editing by
Renu Saluja

Production Design by
Ashish Lakhia
Meera Lakhia

Art Direction by
Ashish Lakhia
Meera Lakhia

Costume Design by
Monica Dutta

Makeup Department
Mickey Contractor	....	makeup consultant

Sound Department
Rajat Dholakia	....	sound designer
Hitendra Ghosh	....	sound mixer: Raj Kamal Kalamandir
Indrajit Neogi	....	audiographer
Prakash Gupta	....	dubbing (uncredited)

Music Department
Gulzar	....	lyricist
Hridaynath Mangeshkar	....	playback singer
Lata Mangeshkar	....	playback singer
Kumar Sanu	....	playback singer (as Kumar Shanu)

Other crew
Kiran Bhatia	....	financial controller
Nirin Mehta	....	chartered accountant (as Niren Mehta)
Vijay Sharma	....	production controller

Thanks
Asha Bhosle	....	acknowledgment
Achille Forler	....	acknowledgment
Urmi Juvekar	....	acknowledgment
Gulan Kriplani	....	acknowledgment
Sudhir Mishra	....	acknowledgment
Ashok Nagpaul	....	acknowledgment (as Brigadier Ashok Nagpaul)
Gautam Rajadhyaksha	....	acknowledgment
Ramesh Sahu	....	acknowledgment
Manmohan Shetty	....	acknowledgment

Production Companies

• Forum Films
• Ketan Mehta Films (production: India) (as Ketan Mehta Films Pvt. Ltd.)
• National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) (financed by) (as National Film Developement Corporation of India)

Distributors

• Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd. (20??) (India) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Adlabs Films  processing (as Ad Labs Pvt. Ltd. Bombay)
• Milgrey Optical Center  optical effects
• Rajkamal Kalamandir  sound mixing (as Raj Kamal Kalamandir)
• Sterling Recordings  soundtrack
• Studio Link  publicity design

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Runtime:

130 min

Country:

France | UK | India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

India:A

Company:

Forum Films

Movie Connections:

Version of Madame Bovary (1949)

Soundtrack:

O Dil Banjare

Too Dark!

I've been watching this movie by hoping to find a pretty and interesting story yet the story line wasn't good at all. The play of the actors weren't any better.

Of course Shahrukh Khan was there yet he wasn't enough to make this movie "credible" and interesting.

I've read that this movie was based on the novel of Flaubert "Madame Bovary" yet for me I didn't see it matching with the Indian mentality.

In general we buy movie to dream and have a good time, not to waste our time and change our mood into worse. I just can't understand how it could get such a "high" vote with an average of 6.8/10.

So it's the kind of movie you should run away & ignore because there is nothing to appreciate in it! You will just waste your time unless if you like "dark movie" with "strange and non sense story".