In Custody
1994 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom
An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man. Deven goes to Bhopal from Mirpur to meet Nur, of whom he is in awe. He finds him living with feuding wives, visited by sycophants who drink his whisky and eat his food. Deven wants to record Nur for posterity and seeks funds to buy an aged tape recorder, to bribe Safiya, the elder wife, to get Nur into a room at a brothel for a week for the recording.
Direction Ismail Merchant
Cast Shashi Kapoor · Shabana Azmi · Om Puri · Sushma Seth · Neena Gupta · Tinnu Anand · Prayag Raj · Parikshat Sahni · Sagar Arya · Veerendra Saxena · Afzal Khan · Amjad Khan
Soundtrack Zakir Hussain · Ustad Sultan Khan
Screenplay Anita Desai · Shahrukh Husain
Cinematography Larry Pizer
Original title In Custody
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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