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Title: |
Shobhayatra |
| Director: |
Vijay Ghatge |
| Genre: |
Not Available |
| Year: |
2005 |
| Language: |
Hindi |
| Color: |
Color |
| Release: |
02/25/2005 |
| Producer: |
Vijay Ghatge |
| Music: |
Taufiq |
| Starring |
| Divya Dutta, Vineet Kumar, Prithvi Sankhala, Kishor Kadam, Denzil Smith, Rajesh Bhosle, Prasad Salvi, Samantha, Girish Salvi
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| Plot |
| It was15th Aug - the 50th anniversary of India's Independence
day Celebrated on all over the country. In Mumbai , six citizens from different walks of
life-a businessman, bureaucrat, lawyer, professor, teacher and a vagabond, gather in a godown of a dilapidated mill. They are dressed as well known personalities from the
Indian History-Gandhi, Nehru, Bose, Tilak, Rani of Jhansi and lesser known - martyr Babu Genu- for a procession that is to start from the mill gate.
As the procession gets delayed, the six are left to themselves in the mill as they wait impatiently for the delayed parade to
start. Soon,small skeletons in their personal cupboard begin to rattle, highlighting the irony of their present engagement. Their anxieties and fears are in direct contrast to the masks that they are wearing. The atmosphere turns claustrophobic and bitter, showing us the post Independent India where muscle and money power have corrupted the environment and robbed its citizens of their actual freedom.
Into this tense atmosphere, in walks the irresistible and seductive
Barbie, the American dream- embodiment of free and affluent Western world, walking the thin line between caricature and reality. The fear and hypocrisy of the characters surface as they fall prey to her seductive charm. In all this madness emerges the hidden face of the underworld don who has sponsored the parade. |
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Movie Poster
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| Related Information |
| This story is based on a well- appreciated, award winning play by Shaafat Khan in Marathi.
The Censor Board has refused to pass the trailer of the film
Shobhayatra although it has already passed the
film and also has imposed four major cuts-objection
to Gandhi, Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose dancing with Barbie
which the Censor Board felt that the masses would not like our freedom fighters being shown in such a
light, the other one, freedom fighter Babu Genu is shown making love to
Barbie. After seeing this, the characters start hallucinating and break into a dance number.The board also wanted cuts in some dialogues which were vulgar according to the board,"Nehru trying to flirt with Jhansi Ki Rani and describing Barbie’s lips, eyes and bosom",says
Ghatge. | | |