Saaransh (सारांश) 1984

Published on November 20, 2012 in Cinema

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Banner	Rajshri Productions
Director	Mahesh Bhatt
Writer	Mahesh Bhatt
Producer	Tarachand Barjatya
Orginal music	Ajit Verman
Cinematography	Adeep Tandon
Film Editing	David Dhawan
Art Director	Madhukar S. Shinde
Camera Operator	Aziz Motiwala
Assistant Cameramen	Kamal Chopra,Salim,Ajit Shrivastava
Playback Singers	Amit Kumar,Bhupendra Singh

Character	Actor / Actress
Parvati Pradhan	Rohini Hattangadi
B.V. Pradhan	Anupam Kher
Sujata Suman	Soni Razdan
Vilas Chitre	Madan Jain
Vishwanath	Suhas Bhalekar
Pandit / Astrologer	Alok Nath
Chief Minister Shashikant	Akash Khurana
Dr. Bhatt	Vijay Kashyap
	Kishore Jariwala
Police Inspector	Suresh Chatwal
Gajanan Chitre's Goon	Salim Ghouse
	Arun Bakshi
	Sankalp Dubey
	Rajesh Kumar
Hyder Ali	Haidar Ali
	Deepak Qazir
	Haneef Zahoor
Phillips	Kamal Chopra
Interviewer	Arun Mathur
	Raju Barot
	Riaz Shaikh
	Gurtar Gill
	Ritesh Haldar
	Vasant Ingle
Gajanan Chitre	Nilu Phule

Saaransh is a story of an old Maharashtrian couple living in Shivaji Park, Mumbai, coming to terms with the death of their only son who is killed in a mugging incident in New York. Devastated to learn that their child has been killed, former headmaster B.V. Pradhan and his wife, Parvati, grieve.

With their son dead, there is no income coming in, so they rent out a room in their Shivaji Park (Mumbai) apartment to a budding Bollywood actress, Sujata Suman, who has been having an illicit affair with Vilas (Madan Jain), the only son of a politician named Gajanan Chitre. Vilas lacks the guts to tell his father that he is in love and would like to marry Sujata and puts off any marriage plans. They get intimate and, as a result, Sujata gets pregnant. When Pradhan finds out, he offers to take Sujata to meet Gajanan with the hope that he will permit her to become his daughter-in-law. Gajanan not only refuses, he also threatens them: He warns them of dire consequences if Sujata does not abort the child and moves away to another town. Pradhan refuses to let Sujata out of his house, and then begins the stalking and harassment by Gajanen's men. Pradhan goes to file a police complaint but is told that the police cannot even touch Gajanan's men. Sujata has no choice but to continue to seek shelter with Pradhan and Parvati. Sujata does not know that they have a secret agenda of their own in keeping her within their sight

One poignant moment is when Pradhan (Anupam Kher) is haggling with the customs officials to recover his son's ashes. (Anupam Kher was only 29 years old, but he played the role of a retired stubborn old man with aplomb, thereby establishing himself as a great actor.)