
Ismail Merchant
Director


An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man. Deven goes to Bhopal from Mirpur to meet Nur, of whom he is in awe. He finds him living with feuding wives, visited by sycophants who drink his whisky and eat his food. Deven wants to record Nur for posterity and seeks funds to buy an aged tape recorder, to bribe Safiya, the elder wife, to get Nur into a room at a brothel for a week for the recording, and to feed Nur's pals who show up. Nur's beautiful second wife, Imtiaz, wants to be taken seriously as a poetess. Dever dismisses her and ignores his own wife and child much as Nur does. In the end, what is preserved?
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Ismail Merchant
Director

Shashi Kapoor
Nur

Shabana Azmi
Imtiaz Begum

Om Puri
Deven

Sushma Seth
Safiya Begum

Neena Gupta
Sarla

Tinnu Anand
Murad
Prayag Raj
Jain

Parikshit Sahni
Siddiqui

Sagar Arya
Chiku
Riju Bajaj
Young Poet
Nayeem Hafizka
Young Poet

Veerendra Saxena
Young Poet
Rupinder Kaur
Mrs. Bhalla
Sameer Mitha
Manu
Maza Bi
Safiya's Attendant
Alakh Nandan
Trivedi
Yusuf Khurram
Young Poet
Shahid Masood
Dhanu
Shahrukh Husain
Writer