Samaantar

Samaantar
Samaantar
	DVD cover
Directed by	Amol Palekar
Written by	Sandhya Gokhale
Starring	Amol Palekar ; Sharmila Tagore
Cinematography	Asim Bose
Edited by	Abhijit Deshpande
Music by	Anand Modak
Production; company	Reliance Big Pictures
Distributed by	Reliance Big Pictures
Release date	4 September 2009;
Running time	105 minutes
Country	India
Language	Marathi

Samaantar (Parallel) is a 2009 Marathi film directed by Amol Palekar and starring Palekar himself along with Sharmila Tagore in the lead roles.^[1] This is Sharmila's first Marathi film. Director Amol Palekar's previous film in the dual role of actor-director was Ankahee (1985).^[2]^[3]

Plot[]

Keshav Vaze (Amol Palekar) is an eminent businessman who has grown into an industrialist struggling through his life and rising from a small village. He is separated from his college sweetheart Shama (Sharmila Tagore) due to an earthquake in which he loses his family and is left to take care of several young siblings, cousins. Shama is bearing a child of Keshav and goes into a state of shock and dismay when he does not return for months. When Keshav returns, he does not find Shama where he left her and assumes she is dead after a few years. At his 60th birthday, a glimpse of Shama strikes him of how he and his yesteryear soulmate have walked on different and parallel ways.

Cast[]

Amol Palekar as Keshav Vaze
Sharmila Tagore as Shama Vaze
Radhika Apte as Reva (Keshav's adopted daughter)
Sameer Dharmadhikari as Keshav's biological son
Aishwarya Narkar
Kishor Kadam
Rishi Deshpande
Sandeep Mehta
Makrand Deshpande
Vandana Gupte

References[]

^ "A challenging role". The Hindu. 27 August 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
^ "Amol won't play Salman's dad!". The Times of India. 28 August 2009. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
^ "Indian cinema not just about Bollywood: Amol Palekar". . 5 September 2009. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2012.

External links[]

Samaantar at IMDb

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[1] "A challenging role". The Hindu. 27 August 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2011.

[2] "Amol won't play Salman's dad!". The Times of India. 28 August 2009. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.

[3] "Indian cinema not just about Bollywood: Amol Palekar". . 5 September 2009. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2012.

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