Tarang (film)
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| Tarang तरंग | |
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| Directed by | Kumar Shahani |
| Written by | Kumar Shahani Roshan Shahani |
| Starring | Amol Palekar Smita Patil Shreeram Lagoo Om Puri Girish Karnad |
| Cinematography | K. K. Mahajan |
| Edited by | Ashok Tyagi |
| Music by | Vanraj Bhatia |
| Distributed by | National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) |
Release date |
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Running time | 171 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Tarang (Hindi: तरंग "wave") English title Wages and Profits, is a 1984 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Kumar Shahani. The film is Shahani's second feature film after his most famous work, Maya Darpan, and took him more than 12 years to raise funding for.[1] The movie is considered, along with Shahani's other features, to be a seminal work of India's Parallel Cinema movement. The movie stars several big actors who were prominent in the Indian art cinema scene of the early '80s, including Amol Palekar, Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Om Puri, and Shreeram Lagoo.[2]
Sethji (Shreeram Lagoo) is a widowed businessman who lives a comfortable life with his only daughter, Hansa, his son-in-law, Rahul (Amol Palekar), and a grandson, Munna. Rahul is Sethji's right-hand man, and his nephew Dinesh (Girish Karnad) is his assistant. Over time, petty rivalries and jealousies have grown in the family, and Sethji and Rahul feel that Dinesh is trying to undermine the business. They make a plan to get rid of him without attracting any attention to themselves and succeed, but the after-effects are not kind towards Sethji's health, which grows worse eventually leading to his untimely death. Shortly thereafter, Hansa also dies, leaving her husband Rahul to look after the business on his own. Things start to turn controversial once Rahul begins an affair with the maidservant Janki (Smita Patil), and it is soon revealed that Hansa's death may not have been a suicide, but was a cover-up. As the mysteries start to unfold, they leave a scarring emotional impact on Rahul, and test his relationship with his late wife's family and his new lover.[3]
Music
Music is composed by Vanraj Bhatia with lyrics by Raghuveer Sahay.
- "Barse Ghan Saari Raat" - Lata Mangeshkar
- "Tarang Tarang" - Asha Bhosle