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| name = Zara Si Zindagi
| name = Zara Si Zindagi
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| image = Zara Si Zindagi.jpg
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| director = [[K. Balachander]]
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| producer = Premaalaya
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| starring = [[Kamal Haasan]]<br />[[Anita Raj]]
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*[[Anita Raj]]
*[[Nilu Phule]]
*[[Mazhar Khan (actor, born 1955)|Mazhar Khan]]
*[[Shriram Lagoo|Shreeram Lagoo]]
*[[Karan Razdan]]
*[[Arjun Chakraborty]]
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| music = [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
| music = [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
| cinematography = [[B. S. Lokanath]]
| cinematography = [[B. S. Lokanath]]
| editing = N.R. Kittoo
| editing = N. R. Kittoo
| studio = Premaalaya Films
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'''''Zara Si Zindagi''''' ({{lang-en|A Slice of Life|italic=yes}}) is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1983|1983]] Indian [[Hindi|Hindi-language]] film directed by [[K. Balachander]], starring [[Kamal Haasan]], [[Anita Raj]], [[Nilu Phule]], [[Mazhar Khan (actor, born 1955)|Mazhar Khan]], [[Shriram Lagoo]] and [[Karan Razdan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Zara Si Zindagi LP Records|url=http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zara-Si-Zindagi-Bollywood-Vinyl-Lp-Record-OST-HMV-Music-Laxmikant-Pyarelal-l1997-/360780063748?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item54002ae404|publisher=ebay|accessdate=2014-04-20|}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=KB's continuum|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/KB%E2%80%99s-continuum/article16448445.ece|accessdate=10 August 2017|website=[[The Hindu]]|date=15 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Celebrating Kamal Haasan: How the actor became bigger than his medium|url=http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/celebrating-kamal-haasan-how-the-actor-became-bigger-than-his-medium-3106428.html|accessdate=10 August 2017|website=[[Firstpost]]|date=15 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Unraveling the puzzle|url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Sunday-Hans/2016-02-21/Unraveling-the-puzzle/208716|accessdate=10 August 2017|website=[[Hans India]]|date=21 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ek Nai Paheli|url=http://www.abplive.in/blog/ek-nai-paheli-544121|accessdate=10 August 2017|website=www.abplive.in|date=25 Jun 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Celebrities pay tribute to legendary film director K Balachander|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-celebrities-pay-tribute-to-legendary-film-director-k-balachander-2046557|accessdate=10 August 2017|website=[[DNA India]]|date=23 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=9 best films of K. Balachander|url=http://zeenews.india.com/exclusive/9-best-films-of-k-balachander_1519388.html|accessdate=10 August 2017|website=[[Zee News]]|date=25 December 2014}}</ref>
'''''Zara Si Zindagi''''' ({{translation|A Slice of Life}}) is a 1983 Indian [[Hindi]]-language film directed by [[K. Balachander]], starring [[Kamal Haasan]], [[Anita Raj]], [[Nilu Phule]], [[Mazhar Khan (actor, born 1955)|Mazhar Khan]], [[Shreeram Lagoo]], [[Karan Razdan]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 November 2016 |title=KB's continuum |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/KB%E2%80%99s-continuum/article16448445.ece |url-status=live |access-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123114238/http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/KB%E2%80%99s-continuum/article16448445.ece |archive-date=23 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=15 November 2016 |title=Celebrating Kamal Haasan: How the actor became bigger than his medium |work=[[Firstpost]] |url=http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/celebrating-kamal-haasan-how-the-actor-became-bigger-than-his-medium-3106428.html |url-status=live |access-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810094240/http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/celebrating-kamal-haasan-how-the-actor-became-bigger-than-his-medium-3106428.html |archive-date=10 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=21 February 2016 |title=Unraveling the puzzle |work=[[The Hans India]] |url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Sunday-Hans/2016-02-21/Unraveling-the-puzzle/208716 |url-status=live |access-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205085550/http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Sunday-Hans/2016-02-21/Unraveling-the-puzzle/208716 |archive-date=5 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=23 December 2014 |title=Celebrities pay tribute to legendary film director K Balachander |work=[[DNA India]] |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-celebrities-pay-tribute-to-legendary-film-director-k-balachander-2046557 |url-status=live |access-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810131610/http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-celebrities-pay-tribute-to-legendary-film-director-k-balachander-2046557 |archive-date=10 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=25 December 2014 |title=9 best films of K. Balachander |work=[[Zee News]] |url=http://zeenews.india.com/exclusive/9-best-films-of-k-balachander_1519388.html |url-status=live |access-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224190922/http://zeenews.india.com/exclusive/9-best-films-of-k-balachander_1519388.html |archive-date=24 December 2014}}</ref>


It is the remake of the Tamil film ''[[Varumayin Niram Sivappu]]'' (1980), which was simultaneously shot in Telugu as ''[[Aakali Rajyam]]'' (1981), directed by Balachander himself. ''Zara Si Zindagi''{{'s}} story was written by Balachander, while the dialogues were written by [[Gulzar]].
It is the remake of the Tamil film ''[[Varumayin Niram Sivappu]]'' (1980), which was simultaneously shot in Telugu as ''[[Aakali Rajyam]]'' (1981), directed by Balachander himself. ''Zara Si Zindagi''{{'s}} story was written by Balachander, while the dialogues were written by [[Gulzar]].


==Plot==
== Plot ==


Rakesh (Kamal Haasan), a young man who has an M.A. in philosophy comes to Delhi from Bihar looking for a job. Rakesh, along with his friend Amit of Bengal (Karan Razdan) lives in a slum. One day Amit's friend Tilak from Punjab (Arjun Chakraborty) goes to that dilapidated cottage for staying where Rakesh and Amit reside. The three men share everything that they get to eat and starve for food on most days. Rakesh suddenly one day sees a girl named Kusum (Anita Raj), where he finds her in a bus stop waiting for the next bus towards the railway station, Rakesh offers her to carry the luggage of her till railway station as bus-service is closed and taxi-drivers are on strike on that day. On reaching the railway station, Kusum pays Rakesh to which he replies that he has no change. She rebukes him in Punjabi language assuming he does not speak the language that he is trying to cheat her. Rakesh tells her that he knows Punjabi.
Rakesh, a young man who has an M.A. in philosophy comes to Delhi from Bihar looking for a job. Rakesh, along with his friend Amit of Bengal lives in a slum. One day Amit's friend Tilak from Punjab goes to that dilapidated cottage for staying where Rakesh and Amit reside. The three men share everything that they get to eat, but usually go without food. One day, Rakesh sees a girl named Kusum at a bus stop waiting for the next bus towards the railway station, Rakesh offers to carry her luggage to the railway station as bus service is closed and taxi drivers are on strike on that day. On reaching the railway station, Kusum pays Rakesh to which he replies that he has no change. She rebukes him in Punjabi language assuming he does not speak the language that he is trying to cheat her. Rakesh tells her that he knows Punjabi.


Rakesh once chases a man (Nilu Phule) to his house to get back the 15 rupees which he looted from him by lying. The man enters a house, Rakesh follows him by running after him and reaches till that house and Kusum opens the door after knocking. Rakesh comes to know that the man is Kusum's father. Rakesh tells about the money and Kusum returns the money to Rakesh. Kusum is a small-time stage actress. Kusum goes to Rakesh's house to introduce him to her stage play director to replace an ill actor so that he could earn some money as she came to know that Rakesh is an unemployed man. Kusum introduces Rakesh to her stage-director Pratap (Mazhar Khan), who is arrogant and short-tempered. Pratap has an obsession for Kusum. Pratap can't tolerate intimacy between Rakesh and Kusum. Pratap throws out Rakesh from stage drama acting because of disobeying him. Rakesh does not take the post of a clerk of a company after misbehaving with interview-takers and tears his certificates of educational qualifications.
Rakesh once chases a man to his house to get back the 15 rupees which he looted from him by lying. The man enters a house, Rakesh follows him by running after him and reaches till that house and Kusum opens the door after knocking. Rakesh learns that the man is Kusum's father. Rakesh tells about the money and Kusum returns the money to Rakesh. Kusum is a small-time stage actress. Kusum goes to Rakesh's house to introduce him to her stage play director to replace an ill actor so that he could earn some money as she learned that Rakesh is unemployed. Kusum introduces Rakesh to her stage-director Pratap, who is arrogant and short-tempered. Pratap has an obsession for Kusum. Pratap can't tolerate intimacy between Rakesh and Kusum. Pratap throws out Rakesh from stage drama acting because of disobeying him. Rakesh does not take the post of a clerk of a company after misbehaving with interview-takers and tears his certificates of educational qualifications.


Amit somehow earns money which he did so by the advice of a friend of his named Dilip. Tilak wants to know who Dilip is. He ran away from home in search of that person. Jaggu (Kusum's father) abandons from their home and doesn't return for so many days. Kusum comes to Rakesh's house with her bag and baggage to live there, as her father's information is not known, where he has gone. Kusum gets a new job of baby-sitting, but gets fired quickly for losing the baby while buying a toy as she kept the baby in baby-stroller outside the toy shop. Actually the baby has been kidnapped by Amit, Amit fetches the baby to Rakesh and tells that their days of hardship and starving are over because he will demand ransom from that baby's parents. Kusum notices that the baby was that baby for whom she was doing the baby-sitting job. Kusum takes the baby from Amit and goes to its parents' house to return it. Rakesh beats Amit and asks him who is Dilip. Amit replies that there is no one named Dilip, his own negative mentality is Dilip. Rakesh throws him out of the house and warns him not to come again.
Amit somehow earns money which he did so by the advice of a friend of his named Dilip. Tilak wants to know Dilip's identity. He ran away from home seeking him. Jaggu (Kusum's father) abandons their home and doesn't return for so many days. Kusum comes to Rakesh's house with her bag and baggage to live there, as her father's information is not known, where he has gone. Kusum gets a new job of baby-sitting, but gets fired quickly for losing the baby while buying a toy as she kept the baby in baby-stroller outside the toy shop. Actually the baby has been kidnapped by Amit, Amit fetches the baby to Rakesh and tells that their days of hardship and starving are over because he will demand ransom from that baby's parents. Kusum notices that the baby was that baby for whom she was doing the baby-sitting job. Kusum takes the baby from Amit and goes to its parents' house to return it. Rakesh beats Amit and asks him who Dilip is. Amit replies that there is no one named Dilip, his own negative mentality is Dilip. Rakesh expels him from the house and warns him not to return.


Kusum loves Rakesh, she tells this to a dumb artist Arun (Arun Bakshi), a man whom both Rakesh and Kusum first met in a park.
Kusum loves Rakesh, she tells this to a dumb artist Arun, a man whom both Rakesh and Kusum first met in a park.


Once Pratap tries to strangle Kusum in a stage play, later at night Pratap comes to Kusum's house and apologizes to her, Pratap tells her that he wants to marry her. Kusum agrees to marry to Pratap on a condition, and the condition is, Rakesh will have to be provided a job by Pratap's industrialist father Mohanlal Sharma (Ram Mohan). Rakesh does not take the job as he comes to know that Pratap is Mohanlal's son and Mohanlal tells that Kusum is his son's girlfriend. Pratap threatens to commit suicide if Kusum does not want to marry him. Kusum agrees, but later sees Rakesh singing in a park while on a drive with Pratap, she gets down from the car and tells Rakesh that she will abide by whatever he wants, meanwhile Pratap leaves that place angrily and starts driving his car, not taking Kusum.
Once Pratap tries to strangle Kusum in a stage play, later at night Pratap comes to Kusum's house and apologizes to her, Pratap tells her that he wants to marry her. Kusum agrees to marry to Pratap on a condition, and the condition is, Rakesh will have to be provided a job by Pratap's industrialist father Mohanlal Sharma. Rakesh does not take the job as he realises that Pratap is Mohanlal's son and Mohanlal tells that Kusum is his son's girlfriend. Pratap threatens to kill himself if Kusum does not want to marry him. Kusum agrees, but later sees Rakesh singing in a park while on a drive with Pratap, she gets down from the car and tells Rakesh that she will abide by whatever he wants, meanwhile Pratap leaves that place angrily and starts driving his car, not taking Kusum.


Amit is now a husband of a rich woman and Tilak has turned into a mad beggar. The film ends with Rakesh and Kusum hugging in the park. Pratap gives the neck-chain bought by himself for marriage with Kusum to a street-beggar as alms in hot temperament.
Amit is now a husband of a rich woman and Tilak has turned into a mad beggar. The film ends with Rakesh and Kusum hugging in the park. Pratap gives the neck-chain bought by himself for marriage with Kusum to a street-beggar as alms in hot temperament.


==Cast==
== Cast ==

*[[Kamal Haasan]] as Rakesh Kumar Shastri
*[[Kamal Haasan]] as Rakesh Kumar Shastri
*[[Anita Raj]] as Kusum
*[[Anita Raj]] as Kusum
*[[Nilu Phule]] as Jaggu (Kusum's Father)
*[[Nilu Phule]] as Jaggu
*[[Mazhar Khan (actor, born 1955)|Mazhar Khan]] as Pratap
*[[Mazhar Khan (actor, born 1955)|Mazhar Khan]] as Pratap
*[[Shreeram Lagoo]] as Mr. Shastri (Rakesh's Father)
*[[Shreeram Lagoo]] as Mr. Shastri
*[[Sulochana Latkar]] as Mrs. Shastri (Rakesh's Mother)
*[[Sulochana Latkar]] as Mrs. Shastri
*[[Karan Razdan]] as Amit
*[[Karan Razdan]] as Amit
*[[Arjun Chakraborty]] as Tilak
*[[Arjun Chakraborty]] as Tilak
*[[Arun Bakshi]] as Arun
*[[Arun Bakshi]] as Arun
*[[Ram Mohan]] as Mohanlal Sharma (Pratap's Father)
* Rammohan Sharma as Mohanlal Sharma


==Soundtrack==
== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack of this film was composed by [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]] and the lyrics were penned by [[Anand Bakshi]].
The soundtrack of this film was composed by [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]] and the lyrics were penned by [[Anand Bakshi]].

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| "Ghar Se School"
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| "Kachcha Karawo"
| 2
| "Kacha Karawo Mitti Da"
| [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
| [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
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| 3
| "Jise Maut Aayi"
| "Jise Maut Aayi"
| [[K. J. Yesudas]]
| [[K. J. Yesudas]]
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| "Zamane Mein"
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| [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]]
| "Zamane Mein Mohabbat"
| [[S.P. Balasubrahmanyam]]
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| "Tana Dim Tana Dim" (Duet)
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| "Tana Dim" (Solo)
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| Tana Dim Tana Dim (Solo)
| [[Asha Bhosle]]
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==References==
== References ==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}


==External links==
== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0155408|Zara Si Zindagi}}
* {{IMDb title|0155408}}


{{K. Balachander}}
{{K. Balachander}}


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Latest revision as of 12:25, 13 May 2024

Zara Si Zindagi
Poster
Directed byK. Balachander
Written byGulzar (dialogue)
Story byK. Balachander
Produced byPremaalaya
StarringKamal Haasan
Anita Raj
CinematographyB. S. Lokanath
Edited byN. R. Kittoo
Music byLaxmikant–Pyarelal
Production
company
Premaalaya Films
Release date
  • 7 January 1983 (1983-01-07)
Running time
149 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Zara Si Zindagi (transl. A Slice of Life) is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language film directed by K. Balachander, starring Kamal Haasan, Anita Raj, Nilu Phule, Mazhar Khan, Shreeram Lagoo, Karan Razdan.[1][2][3][4][5]

It is the remake of the Tamil film Varumayin Niram Sivappu (1980), which was simultaneously shot in Telugu as Aakali Rajyam (1981), directed by Balachander himself. Zara Si Zindagi's story was written by Balachander, while the dialogues were written by Gulzar.

Plot[edit]

Rakesh, a young man who has an M.A. in philosophy comes to Delhi from Bihar looking for a job. Rakesh, along with his friend Amit of Bengal lives in a slum. One day Amit's friend Tilak from Punjab goes to that dilapidated cottage for staying where Rakesh and Amit reside. The three men share everything that they get to eat, but usually go without food. One day, Rakesh sees a girl named Kusum at a bus stop waiting for the next bus towards the railway station, Rakesh offers to carry her luggage to the railway station as bus service is closed and taxi drivers are on strike on that day. On reaching the railway station, Kusum pays Rakesh to which he replies that he has no change. She rebukes him in Punjabi language assuming he does not speak the language that he is trying to cheat her. Rakesh tells her that he knows Punjabi.

Rakesh once chases a man to his house to get back the 15 rupees which he looted from him by lying. The man enters a house, Rakesh follows him by running after him and reaches till that house and Kusum opens the door after knocking. Rakesh learns that the man is Kusum's father. Rakesh tells about the money and Kusum returns the money to Rakesh. Kusum is a small-time stage actress. Kusum goes to Rakesh's house to introduce him to her stage play director to replace an ill actor so that he could earn some money as she learned that Rakesh is unemployed. Kusum introduces Rakesh to her stage-director Pratap, who is arrogant and short-tempered. Pratap has an obsession for Kusum. Pratap can't tolerate intimacy between Rakesh and Kusum. Pratap throws out Rakesh from stage drama acting because of disobeying him. Rakesh does not take the post of a clerk of a company after misbehaving with interview-takers and tears his certificates of educational qualifications.

Amit somehow earns money which he did so by the advice of a friend of his named Dilip. Tilak wants to know Dilip's identity. He ran away from home seeking him. Jaggu (Kusum's father) abandons their home and doesn't return for so many days. Kusum comes to Rakesh's house with her bag and baggage to live there, as her father's information is not known, where he has gone. Kusum gets a new job of baby-sitting, but gets fired quickly for losing the baby while buying a toy as she kept the baby in baby-stroller outside the toy shop. Actually the baby has been kidnapped by Amit, Amit fetches the baby to Rakesh and tells that their days of hardship and starving are over because he will demand ransom from that baby's parents. Kusum notices that the baby was that baby for whom she was doing the baby-sitting job. Kusum takes the baby from Amit and goes to its parents' house to return it. Rakesh beats Amit and asks him who Dilip is. Amit replies that there is no one named Dilip, his own negative mentality is Dilip. Rakesh expels him from the house and warns him not to return.

Kusum loves Rakesh, she tells this to a dumb artist Arun, a man whom both Rakesh and Kusum first met in a park.

Once Pratap tries to strangle Kusum in a stage play, later at night Pratap comes to Kusum's house and apologizes to her, Pratap tells her that he wants to marry her. Kusum agrees to marry to Pratap on a condition, and the condition is, Rakesh will have to be provided a job by Pratap's industrialist father Mohanlal Sharma. Rakesh does not take the job as he realises that Pratap is Mohanlal's son and Mohanlal tells that Kusum is his son's girlfriend. Pratap threatens to kill himself if Kusum does not want to marry him. Kusum agrees, but later sees Rakesh singing in a park while on a drive with Pratap, she gets down from the car and tells Rakesh that she will abide by whatever he wants, meanwhile Pratap leaves that place angrily and starts driving his car, not taking Kusum.

Amit is now a husband of a rich woman and Tilak has turned into a mad beggar. The film ends with Rakesh and Kusum hugging in the park. Pratap gives the neck-chain bought by himself for marriage with Kusum to a street-beggar as alms in hot temperament.

Cast[edit]

Soundtrack[edit]

The soundtrack of this film was composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal and the lyrics were penned by Anand Bakshi.

Song Singer
"Ghar Se School" Kishore Kumar
"Kachcha Karawo" Lata Mangeshkar
"Jise Maut Aayi" K. J. Yesudas
"Zamane Mein" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
"Tana Dim Tana Dim" (Duet) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Asha Bhosle
"Tana Dim" (Solo) Asha Bhosle

References[edit]

  1. ^ "KB's continuum". The Hindu. 15 November 2016. Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Celebrating Kamal Haasan: How the actor became bigger than his medium". Firstpost. 15 November 2016. Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Unraveling the puzzle". The Hans India. 21 February 2016. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Celebrities pay tribute to legendary film director K Balachander". DNA India. 23 December 2014. Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  5. ^ "9 best films of K. Balachander". Zee News. 25 December 2014. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2017.

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