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"Gaman" (Departure) is an Urdu language Indian Cinema Art film released in 1978. It is the directorial debut of Muzaffar Ali, who went on to make the successful film Umrao Jaan (1981). The film deals with the issue of futility of urban migration, using the story of migrant from Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai, tries to find with foothold in his new life as a taxi driver.
Film's music was by Jaidev, who won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1979 for his work and for the Song "Aap ki Yaad Aati Rahi" Chhaya Ganguly won an National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer.[5] Shahryar wrote songs for the film, most notably " Seenay Mein Jalan, Aankhon Mein Toofaan", sung by Suresh Wadkar, which highlighted the alienation and busted dreams of migrant community. Ghazal-singer Hariharan also made his playback singing debut with the film.

An Indian Parallel Cinema Art film exposing the brutal market place of Indian society where young women are coerced into arranged marriages by their desperate parents . . . Supriya Pathak's performance in this movie stole the show from many senior actors like Naseeruddin Shah and Smita Patel. Terrific performance by Farooq Sheikh as well ... a must see movie

Mandi, a Sheyam Benegal Art Film based on the Urdu short story "Aanandee" by veteran Pakistani Urdu short story writer Ghulam Abbas is a beautifully made movie. Shyam Benegal uses small details in many scenes of this artistically crafted movie to highlight the inner turmoil of the characters . . . this style is similar to Ghulam Abbas' style of writing where his text also talks about the inner workings of his characters ... Ghulam Abbas was impressed by Chekhov, Gorky but above all by Maupassant's style of short story writing.

Interestingly, the blogspot UrduAdabForU states that "In 1967, Ghulam Abbas wrote a short story called Hotel Mohenjodaro which visualised the consequences of the Mullahs coming to power in Pakistan."

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Movie - Paar (1984)
Star Cast - Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Utpal Dutt
Director - Goutam Ghose

Recognition - Best Screenplay, National Film Award for Best Actor for Naseeruddin Shah, National Film Award for Best Actress for Shabana Azmi, Volpi Cup Best Actor for Naseeruddin Shah, UNESCO Award at Venice Film Festival, Fipresci Award, Red Cross Award at Verna Film Festival (1987)

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Directed by - Gulzar
Cast - Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel, Ram Mohan, Sulabha Deshpande, Dina Pathak, Rita Rani Kaul, Ashok Mehta, Rajesh Bombaywala, Ashfaque Ahmed, Bhupinder Sharma
Produced by - R.K. Gupta, Sweety Mehta
Music by - R.D.Burman
Cinematography by - Ashok Mehta

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The movie's storyline is about identity and dreams of real life young women in modern urban India ... the movie's storyline involves Pooja who grew up as an orphan girl and always dreamt of getting married and someday owning a house of her own ... events in her life take a turn for the worse when one day her husband receives a phone call ....

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Titli (Bengali: তিতলি) "butterfly") is a 2002 Bengali film by the extremely talented Indian Art film director Rituparno Ghosh, starring Aparna Sen, Mithun Chakraborty and Konkona Sen. The film tells the story of a a young teenaged girl and her mother who live on a tea plantation in India. The daughter has a crush on a popular Indian movie star ... one day, as the mother and  daughter are driving to pick up Dad from the local airport, the teenager sees that movie star stranded on the hilly road ... she is ecstatic ... the movie star is offered a ride with them and events unfold . . . the director Rituparno Ghosh explores the mother-daughter relationship  . . .

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This is the best movie to be written and directed by Rituparno Ghosh ... it features career best performances by Ashwarya Rai and Ajay Devgan as well as the maserly use of a Gulzar poem narrated by Gulzar in the midst of a moving song ...

Raincoat is a 2004 Indian Art Film directed by Rituparno Ghosh, and starring Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya Rai. It tells the story of two lovers, separated by destiny, who meet again one day. This encounter allows them to show kindnesses to each other in the form of secret gifts each one leaves for the other. This movie is considered the best of Rituparno Ghosh directed movies. Here, Rituparno uses the idea of O Henry's short story The Gift of the Magi to weave an essentially Indian story rooted in today's India and the love between a man and a woman.  

"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation.

Courtesy of Wikipedia: Bhumika ('The Role') is a 1977 Indian film directed by Shyam Benegal. This film is broadly based on the Marathi-language memoirs, Sangtye Aika of the well-known Marathi stage and screen actress of the 1940s 'Hansa Wadkar', who led a flamboyant and unconventional life, and focuses on an individual's search for identity and self-fulfilment.^[1]

  Smita Patil gives a strong performance of transforming from a vivacious teenager to a wiser but deeply wounded middle-aged woman.

The film won two National Film Awards and Filmfare Best Movie Award. It was invited to Carthage Film Festival 1978, Chicago Film Festival, where it was awarded the Golden Plaque 1978, and in 1986 it was invited to Festival of Images, Algeria.^[2]

Courtesy of Wikipedia: Rajnigandha (Translation: Tuberose) is a Hindi movie directed by Basu Chatterjee and released in 1974. It is based on story "Yehi Sach Hai" by noted Indian short story writer Manu Bhandari.^[1][2]

The movie stars Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha and Dinesh Thakur in the lead. Rajnigandha won the Best Picture, the Popular Award and the Critics Award at the Filmfare Awards in 1975.

Rajnigandha was considered to have a realistic outlook on cinema in 1974, an era when potboilers were ruling Bollywood. The film was the first screen role of Vidya Sinha and  Amol Palekar, both of whom went on to work with Basu Chatterjee in many films.

A riveting love story showcasing the young idyllic dreams of two young lovers against the stark realities of modern urban India.

Courtesy of Wikipedia:  Gharonda ("The Nest") is a 1977 Hindi film, produced and directed by Bhimsain Khurana the film stars Amol Palekar, Zarina Wahab, Shreeram Lagoo and Jalal Agha. The music is by Jaidev.