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Junoon (translation: The Obsession) is a 1979 Indian Hindi language film produced by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Shyam Benegal. The film is based on Ruskin Bond's fictional novella, A Flight of Pigeons, set around the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The film's soundtrack was composed by Vanraj Bhatia, and cinematography by Govind Nihalani.
Mar 30, 1979 · Junoon: Directed by Shyam Benegal. With Shashi Kapoor, Nafisa Ali, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah. Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.
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- Shyam Benegal
- 1979-03-30
JUNOON (1978) Shashi Kapoor stars as a man obsessed with a young Anglo-Indian woman in Shyam Benegal's classic drama, set during the Indian Mutiny. Junoon is one of cinema’s most intelligent and engaging explorations of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them. Shyam Benegal.
Nov 4, 2006 · This simmering historical film by Shyam Benegal, set among the Muslim elite in the mid-nineteenth century, explores some of the tensions between the British colonial regime and the Indian resistors who fought against it in the wake of the rebellions portrayed in the film Mangal Pandey.
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Junoon (Shyam Benegal, 1978) 10/10. Based on Ruskin Bond's fictional novella, A Flight of Pigeons, the film is set around the Indian Rebellion of 1857. A feudal chieftain (Shashi Kapoor), with a Muslim Pathan heritage, falls hopelessly in love with a young British girl (Nafisa Ali).