Main Azaad Hoon (1989)
2h 40m
Running Time
December 15, 1989Release Date
Main Azaad Hoon (1989)
2h 40m
Running Time
December 15, 1989Release Date
Plot.
A newspaper reporter exploits an ordinary man for few rupees to pose as a man who is fighting against the corrupt politicians and prints imaginary stories in his name to improve the circulation of her newspaper. People take him for real and he becomes a powerful leader of poor man. One day the paper prints a letter in his name that he is going to end his life fighting corruption. This puts the ordinary man in a fix. He knows that at this juncture he can't refute the accuracy of all those stories. He also realizes that he is the sole hope of millions. Finally, he buckles under moral pressure and jumps from an incomplete multi-storied building and ends his life.
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Cast & Crew.
Amitabh Bachchan
Azaad
Shabana Azmi
Subhashini Saigal
Anupam Kher
Dalichand Jain
Manohar Singh
Gokuldas
Annu Kapoor
Munna
Ram Gopal Bajaj
Rambhau Kaka
Ajit Vachani
Editor Sharma
Mushtaq Khan
Pandey
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Main Azaad Hoon (transl. I am Free) is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language vigilante film adapted from the 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe, by Javed Akhtar, about an opportunistic journalist who concocts a fictitious man in a fictitious article to boost newspaper sales, but when the article gets a huge response, she finds an unemployed man to sit in as Azaad, "man of the masses". The film was directed by Tinnu Anand, and starred Amitabh Bachchan and Shabana Azmi.The film has only one song; "Itne Baazu Itne Sar", written by Shabana Azmi's real life father and noted poet Kaifi Azmi and sung by the lead actor himself, Amitabh Bachchan.The film won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue for Javed Akhtar.