The People’s Voice presents
Arvind desai ki ajeeb dastan
A film By Saeed Mirza
Conutry : India
Language : Hindi
Duration : 110 Minutes
Vanue : Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar
Date & Time : 24th June, 2012 at 5 P.M.
You are cordially invited
Arvind Desai (Dilip Dhawan) is the only son of a rich businessman (Shriram Lagoo) who deals in luxury handicrafts and products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples. He has long discussions on art and politics with a Marxist friend (Om Puri), is seeing his father's secretary, Alice (Anjali Paigankar) and sometimes he visits a prostitute, Fatima. Much against his wishes, his marriage is arranged to a girl from a high-class family that has just returned from Paris much to Alice's mother dismay who realizes that Alice was time-pass for Arvind and nothing more.About Driector: Saeed Akhtar Mirza started his career as a documentary film maker in 1976, graduating to films with the acclaimed Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978), about the frustrations of an idealistic youth caught in the trap of a feudal money culture. Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980), about an angry youth, in search of his class and ethnic identifications. Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984) is based on the urban middle class, came his satire on the Indian judicial system, an old couple which struggles for years in their legal case that runs for years under a corrupt judiciary, in nexus with real-estate developer. Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989), starring Pawan Malhotra, an archetypal Muslim youth caught in the circle of crime and recrimination, and their collective state amidst growing communalism, ghetto mentality, and a search for an ethnic identity which does not clash with a national identity.Meanwhile he directed and produced popular TV serials Nukkad (Street Corner) (1986) and Intezaar (Wait) (1988), the first was set in lower middle class of various communities, which meet at a street corner in Mumbai suburb, shared their struggle of everyday survival in a harsh world, and was a big hit. His last film Naseem was released way in 1995 set in collapsing secular structure post Babri Masjid demolition era. The fate is his last film Ek Tho Chance is not knowm
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