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Madhav Verma (Om Puri) is a dedicated, honest, and diligent union representative. He represents the majority of the employees in an organization...
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(Credited cast) | Om Puri | ... | Madhav Verma |
 | Gopi | ... | Krishnan Raju |
| Pankaj Kapur | ... | Chotelal |
| Naseeruddin Shah | ... | Rustom Patel |
| Deepa Sahi | ... | Chotelal's wife |
 | Amrish Puri | ... | Chakradev |
| Sadashiv Amrapurkar | ... | VP Sarnaik |
| Rohini Hattangadi | ... | Mrs. Ali, Social Worker (as Rohini Hattangady) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Salim Ghouse | ||
| Vijay Kashyap | ||
| Loveleen Mishra | ... | Shobha |
| Harish Patel | ... | Laxman, Chotelal brother |
| Achyut Potdar | ... | Chotelal's elder brother |
| K.K. Raina | ||
| M.K. Raina | ||
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Anguish (International: English title) (informal literal title)
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This is another film which deviates from the regular Indian movies.
The movie raises the issue of exploitation of factory-workers by their employer. A worker named Chotelal, played by Pankaj Kapoor, gets injured while working in the factory, and his family is poverty-ridden. There is a powerful performance by Om Puri as Madhav Verma, a truthful Labor-Union leader with high morals and strong leftist ideas, fighting for a workers' rights.
The opposition Labor Union tries to use this incident as a means of wooing workers to join them by getting higher severance package from the employer. Madhav Verma is also sucked into the game to save his Union. Hence, what started off as a fight for Chotelal's rights becomes a fight for the existence of the 2 Unions.
The political games played by the trio of the 2 Labor Unions and the employer come into the forefront. But Chotelal and his wife are always in the background reminding Madhav how he had gone back on the promise to truthfully server the workers.
Great portrayal of the dilemma of Madhav, and Chotelal's wife as a constant reminder to Madhav of their pain. Interestingly, she has only one dialog in the end, and plays the rest of the role through her expressive eyes.