Masala (1991 film)
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Srinivas Krishna
Zohra Sehgal
Saeed Jaffrey
Sakina Jaffrey
Madhuri Bhatia
| Masala | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Srinivas Krishna |
| Written by | Srinivas Krishna |
| Produced by | Camelia Frieberg Srinivas Krishna |
| Starring | Srinivas Krishna Zohra Sehgal Saeed Jaffrey Sakina Jaffrey Madhuri Bhatia |
| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Edited by | Mike Munn |
| Music by | Leslie Winston |
Production company | Divani Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Masala is a 1991 Canadian drama film starring, written, and directed by Srinivas Krishna.[1]
Krishna is an orphan in Toronto whose parents and siblings were killed several years earlier in the Air India Flight 182 explosion while travelling back to India for a family visit, and who is now cleaning up his act after several years living on the streets as a drug addict and criminal.
The film also stars Zohra Sehgal as his grandmother; Saeed Jaffrey in a triple role as his uncle Lallu, a postal worker named Hariprasad and the Hindu god Krishna; and Sakina Jaffrey as Rita, Hariprasad's daughter.[2]
Distribution
The film premiered at the 1991 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]
Response
The film has been described as drawing on some the cinematic traditions of Bollywood rather than relying solely on the social realist conventions of Canadian film.[4]
It has come to be recognized, alongside Deepa Mehta's contemporaneous Sam & Me, as being the first major landmark films about the Indo-Canadian experience.[5]
Accolades
The film received the Samuelson Award at the Birmingham International Film and Television Festival in 1991,[6] and Saeed Jaffrey received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 12th Genie Awards.[7]