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It was first shown on India's national broadcaster Doordarshan as a mini-series and later as a one-off four-hour-long feature film. At the 35th National Film Awards, it won three awards including the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. In August 2013, it was shown on History TV18 as a series.
Recent reviews. Based on the novel by Bhisham Sahni, Tamas is an epic drama set against the backdrop of riot-stricken North India on the eve of Partition in 1947. Nathu, an outcast, is hired to kill a pig, whose carcass he’s later appalled to find in front of the mosque.
- Govind Nihalani
Rating: 4-1/2. Nathu, a tanner, finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a ‘crime’. He is asked to kill a pig, which is not his usual trade. But he’s paid handsomely and so obliges. The...
Nov 27, 2015 · Tamasha review: Despite its flaws, this is Ali’s most complex story, teeming with ideas, and gives us Ranbir Kapoor back again, along with the lovely Deepika Padukone. Just short of an hour into the film, I was up to there with ‘Tamasha’.
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Set in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the plight of emigrant Sikh and Hindu families to India as a consequence of the ...
Film: Tamasha. Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Piyush Mishra. Director: Imtiaz Ali. Rating: 3.5/5. Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in a still from Tamasha. (YOUTUBE GRAB) Deepika ...
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Aug 14, 2011 · Govind Nihalani’s Tamas is a film about the mass migration of a Sikh and Hindu family to India, in the backdrop of riot-stricken west Punjab, now in Pakistan, at the time of partition in 1947.
