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Director:
Writers:
Mohan Azaad (dialogue)
Mohan Azaad (screenplay)
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Release Date:
28 September 2001 (India) more
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Plot:
Mumtaz is a village girl whose family is killed in communal riots. She moves to Mumbai with her uncle... more | add synopsis
Awards:
7 wins & 14 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(30 articles)
Madhur Bhandarkar set to direct comedy
 (From RealBollywood. 4 December 2009, 1:23 AM, PST)

Madhur Bhandarkar felicitated at Cairo
 (From BollywoodHungama. 24 November 2009, 4:45 AM, PST)

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Cast

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Tabu ... Mumtaz
Atul Kulkarni ... Potiya Sawant
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vinay Apte ... Insp. Gaikwar
Abhay Bhargav ... Hegde Anna
Ananya Khare ... Deepa Pandey (bar-girl)
Suhas Palshikar
Rajanna ... Uma Shankar Pandey
Minakshi Sahani ... Payal Sawant
Shameem Shaikh ... Shabnam Sheikh (Shaboo)
Vishal Thakkar ... Abhay Sawant
Varun Vardhan
Shri Vallabh Vyas ... Habib
Rajpal Yadav ... Iqbal Chamdi
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Czech Republic:150 min (Karlovy Vary Film Festival)
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Realism....from Bollywood!!!, 13 June 2003
Author: Jiten S. Merchant (jm@vsnl.net) from Bombay (Mumbai) India

"Chandni Bar" is the BEST movie to come out of Bollywood in 4 decades. Its a brave film, speaking unabashedly about the seemy underbelly of Bombay (and YES it is and always will be Bombay to many), about the nexus between crime and the corrupt police in this city, about sin and the hope of redemption dashed by a vicious system. No wonder this was NOT India's entry to the Oscars....our politicians would be loathe to export something that could "create a bad impression" (they sent the ghastly jingoistic "Lagaan" instead). Pity, because, as an example of cinema verite at its grittiest, it would have probably won. Tabu would have definitely been in the running for Best Actress --- her performance is a study in truth and control. I happened to meet her on a plane and asked whether the film was shot more-or-less in sequence; and she answered in the affirmative --- no doubt this helped her create a slowly-intensifying graph of emotion, peaking at her gut-wrenching howls in the final scene. Her subtlety and sensitivity in the role of the dance-hall girl have had few equals seen by this writer in the cinema. Also the film's design, capturing the slums, back-alleys, police-stations and of course the seedy, sexual, smoky, boozy atmosphere of the dance-bar (changing its decor and its music with the passage of time in the plot) has an attention to detail and a REALISM that anyone who has ever been to these places will marvel at. Bravo to all concerned....and now may we PLEASE have this available on DVD?

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