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Release Date: 1993

Cast: Om Puri, Sushma Seth, Neena Gupta, Sagar Arya, Shabana Azmi, Tinnu Anand, Shashi Kapoor, Parikshat Sahni, Mohammad Ali, Amjad Khan

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Comedy-Drama, World Cinema

In Custody/Muhafiz (1993) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions. It was directed by Ismail Merchant, with a screenplay by Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain. It is based upon Desai's 1984 Booker Prize nominated novel In Custody. Deven's (Om Puri) position as a professor of Hindi at a local college is only a means to an end. His first love is the Urdu language and in particular Urdu poetry. Deven's multiple (and often stymied) attempts to interview the great Urdu poet, Nur (Shashi Kapoor), acts as a metaphor for the clash between modernization and tradition. vocalists MORE

In Custody/Muhafiz (1993) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions. It was directed by Ismail Merchant, with a screenplay by Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain. It is based upon Desai's 1984 Booker Prize nominated novel In Custody. Deven's (Om Puri) position as a professor of Hindi at a local college is only a means to an end. His first love is the Urdu language and in particular Urdu poetry. Deven's multiple (and often stymied) attempts to interview the great Urdu poet, Nur (Shashi Kapoor), acts as a metaphor for the clash between modernization and tradition. vocalists LESS