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Junoon (translation: The Obsession) is a 1979 Indian Hindi language film produced by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Shyam Benegal. The film is based on Ruskin Bond's fictional novella, A Flight of Pigeons, set around the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The film's soundtrack was composed by Vanraj Bhatia, and cinematography by Govind Nihalani. [1]
The novella is an adaptation of the novel Mariam: A Story of the Indian Mutiny (1896) by J. F. Fanthome [2] and is a mix of fiction and non fiction and was adapted into a film in 1978 called Junoon [3] by Shyam Benegal, starring Shashi Kapoor, his wife Jennifer Kendal, and Nafisa Ali. [4] [5]
Shyam Benegal was born on 14 December 1934 in a Konkani-speaking [7] Hindu family [8] in Hyderabad, as Shyam Sunder Benegal. [9] His father hailed from Karnataka. [10] When he was twelve years old, he made his first film, on a camera given to him by his photographer father Sridhar B. Benegal.
1978: Kondura : Raviraj International: Featured in the Indian Panorama at the 1979 Berlin International Film Festival: 1979: Junoon: Film Valas: 1980 Filmfare Best Movie Award, National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi: 1981: Kalyug: 1982 Filmfare Best Movie Award: 1982: Arohan: Blaze Film Enterprises: National Film Award for Best ...
Junoon (1994 TV series), a Doordarshan television series Junoon (2008 TV series) , a NDTV Imagine television series Junoon – Aisi Nafrat Toh Kaisa Ishq , an Indian TV series
Junoon (1978), based on the novel A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond, is set during the backdrop of the Mutiny of 1857. Gandhi (1982), about the life of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the non-violent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century.
Junoon, or The Obsession, a 1979 Indian drama film by Shyam Benegal; Obsession, a Franco-German drama starring Daniel Craig; Obsession, a Nigerian drama; Circle of Two, 1981 Canadian drama also distributed as Obsession; Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, 2005 documentary
Her first film was Junoon in 1978. She is known for playing a mother and grandmother role in movies and on television, and notable for her role as Dadi in the pioneering TV soap Hum Log (1984–1985). [3] She received a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Ameena Bai in B. R. Chopra's drama Tawaif ...