Zara Si Zindagi

Directed by K. Balachander
January 7, 1983    2h 29mDrama, Family,
7.78.0
Remake of Balachander's Tamil hit Varumayin Niram Sivappu, Kamal Haasan reprises his role as Raja, a graduate looking for work in capital, sharing a small home with two other unemployed youth. He falls in love with a struggling actress, whose life is likewise wretched. Fairly unrelenting grim view of urban unemployment, with the usual dose of Balachander moralizing. The Tamil version with Bharati poems was somewhat more interesting. An interesting study of the perception of government.

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  • Kamal HaasanRakesh Kumar Shastri
  • Anita RajKusum
  • Nilu PhuleJaggu - Kusum's father
  • Mazhar KhanPratap
  • Shreeram LagooMr. Shastri - Rakesh's father
  • Karan RazdanAmit
  • Sulochana LatkarMrs. Shastri - Rakesh's mother
  • Arun BakshiArun
  • Arjun ChakrabortyTilak
  • K. BalachanderDirector / Story
  • R. VenkataramanProducer
  • B. S. LokanathDirector Of Photography
  • N. R. KittuEditor
  • Pyarelal Ramprasad SharmaOriginal Music Composer
  • Laxmikant Shantaram KudalkarOriginal Music Composer
  • Anand BakshiLyricist
  • GulzarDialogue

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