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In Custody

Release Date:April 15, 1994

Running Time:126 min

Genres:Drama, Comedy

Director

Cast

Shashi Kapoor Om Puri Shabana Azmi Neena Gupta Sushma Seth Tinnu Anand Prayag Raj Parikshat Sahni Sagar Arya Yusuf Khurram Riju Bajaj Nayeem Hafizka

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Synopsis

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. Merchant 's treatment is wry and good humored , as his characters - an aging Urdu poet (Shashi Kapoor) and a worshipful young college lecturer - clash despite their shared passion for the beauty of words.

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