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Sparsh is a 1980 Indian Hindi feature film directed by Sai Paranjpye. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi playing the characters of a visually impaired principal and a sighted teacher in a school for the blind, where they fall in love though soon their complexes tag along and they struggle to get past them to reconnect with the "touch" of love. The film remains most memorable for the subtle acting of its leads, plus the handling of the issue of relationships with the visually handicapped, revealing the emotional and perception divide between the world, the "blind" and the "sighted", epitomized by the characters. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. However, the film's release was delayed by almost 4 years.
Original Release
01/30/1980
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shabana Azmi | Kavita / Kavita Prasad |
Naseeruddin Shah | Anirudh Parmar / Aniruddh Parmar |
Sudha Chopra | Manju / Manju Bhardwaj |
Mohan Gokhale | Jagdish |
Pran Talwar | Suresh Bhardwaj |
Arun Joglekar | Paploo's Uncle |
Om Puri | Dubey |
Lakshman Tandon | |
Tapan Kumar Nandi | Doctor |
Arun Sachdev |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shabana Azmi | Kavita / Kavita Prasad |
Naseeruddin Shah | Anirudh Parmar / Aniruddh Parmar |
Sudha Chopra | Manju / Manju Bhardwaj |
Mohan Gokhale | Jagdish |
Pran Talwar | Suresh Bhardwaj |
Arun Joglekar | Paploo's Uncle |
Om Puri | Dubey |
Lakshman Tandon | |
Tapan Kumar Nandi | Doctor |
Arun Sachdev | |
Baladutt Sharma | Baladutt |
Mukesh Gautam | |
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan | Self (in a musical concert) |
E.V. Sabhani | Self (Chief Guest) |
Indira Sabhani | Self (Chief Guest) |
Praveen Swami |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Basu Bhattacharya | Producer |