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Release Date:
September 14, 1984
Original Title:
Paar
Alternate Titles:
The Crossing
पार
পার
교차점
사아힐
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Orchid Films
Production Countries:
India
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 141
When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.
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Art Direction:
Ashoke Bose
Assistant Art Director:
Shatadal Mitra
Assistant Camera:
Dilip Banerjee
Salim Sheikh
Sanjay Bhattacharya
Anil Ghosh
Assistant Director:
Sabyasachi Mukherjee
Sibaditya Dasgupta
Assistant Editor:
Moloy Banerjee
Costume Design:
Neelanjana Ghose
Dialogue:
Surendra Pratap Singh
Director:
Goutam Ghose
Director of Photography:
Goutam Ghose
Editor:
Prasanta Dey
First Assistant Director:
Mohan Koda
David Roy Chowdhury
Grip:
Sudama Ram
Makeup Artist:
Debi Haldar
Music:
Goutam Ghose
Orchestrator:
Aloknath Dey
Playback Singer:
Shabana Azmi
Producer:
Swapan Sarkar
Production Assistant:
Trailokya Chakravorty
Bhagirath Chakravorty
Paltu Das
Dulal Saha
Panchu Gopal Naskar
Production Controller:
Shanu Banerjee
Production Executive:
Kalyan Dasgupta
Production Manager:
Anath Banerjee
Screenplay:
Partha Banerjee
Goutam Ghose
Partho Mukerjee
Settings:
Naba Rauth
Babaji Swai
Bhola Malik
Ram Naresh
Dhanuk Dhari Rum
Sound:
M. Sheikh
B. Chaturvedi
Jyoti Chatterjee
Robin Sengupta
Sound Designer:
Anup Mukhyopadhyay
Special Effects:
S.A. Azim
M.A. Hafeez
Still Photographer:
Nemai Ghosh
Story:
Samaresh Basu
Title Designer:
Bimal Majumdar
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