Tamanna (1997)

Director:

Mahesh Bhatt

Writers:

Mahesh Bhatt (story)
Tanuja Chandra (screenplay)

Release Date:

13 April 1998 (India)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The year is 1975, the place is Mahim, Bombay, and this is the story of Tikku, a eunuch, the only child of yesteryear Bollywood actress Nazneen Begum...

Plot Keywords:

Mother Superior | Nun

Cast

Paresh Rawal	...	Tikku Ali Sayed
Pooja Bhatt	...	Tamanna
Sharad S. Kapoor	...	Sajid Khan (as Sharad Kapoor)
Manoj Bajpai	...	Salim
Akshay Anand	...	Jugal Chopra
Kamal Chopra	...	Ranvir Chopra
Nadira	...	Nazneen Begum
Sulabha Deshpande	...	Kaushalya (as Sulbha Deshpande)
Zohra Sehgal	...	Mrs. Chopra (as Zohra Saigal)
Chandu Parkhi
Ashutosh Rana	...	Haribhai
Anupam Shyam	...	Anjum
Kunal Khemu	...	Young Sajid Khan (as Kunal)
Baby Gazala	...	Young Tamanna
Kunika	...	Actress

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

India:A

Company:

Pooja Bhatt Productions

Trivia:

1975, In an early dawn of the month of Ramzan, an eunuch picked up a mutilated new-born girl-child from the streets of Mahim, Mumbai - whom he later named Tamanna. This work of fiction is inspired from that true incident. Tikku still lives an anonymous life in the bylanes of Mahim.

A 'hijra' can be a normal person too....

A "Hijra" or a transvestite chances upon an abandoned baby in a dustbin. Unable to trace the parents, he adopts the baby. The truth is kept hidden from her that he is not a normal person, until when she finally learns about his true identity she says 'that he cared for me like a father and I don't consider him to be not normal'. The film portrays the biased society that we live in and how we stereotype people for their reputation.