Celebrities arrive at an extravagant party in Bombay to honour Divakar for his contributions to arts and cinema. However, gossip, uninvited guests and a dead body show up to mar the celebrations.
Writing
Mahesh Elkunchwar's play adaptation: every insult lands like a velvet knife.
Acting
Rohini Hattangadi's Mohini owns every room she enters, drunk or furious.
Direction
Nihalani traps you in claustrophobic rooms where pretensions curdle.
Director
Govind Nihalani
Vijaya Mehta
Damyanti Rane
Deepa Sahi
Sona Rane
Rohini Hattangadi
Mohini Barve
Shafi Inamdar
Ravindra "Ravi"
Gulan Kripalani
Vrunda
Amrish Puri
Doctor of Philosophy
Manohar Singh
Divakar Barve
K.K. Raina
Bharat
Akash Khurana
Agashe
Naseeruddin Shah
Amrit
Soni Razdan
Malvika "Vicky"
Pearl Padamsee
Ruth Abraham
Ila Arun
Herself
Om Puri
Avinash
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of Indian parallel cinema's sharpest class critiques, made when Bombay's art scene was imploding under commercial pressure.
The entire film was shot in a real bungalow in 20 days; the suffocating atmosphere is literal.
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