Disha

About the film

Disha (English: Direction) was a 1990 Hindi film directed by Sai Paranjpye, based on the plight of immigrant workers in urban India, starring Shabana Azmi, Nana Patekar and Om Puri in lead roles.

The film was a part of the Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India. It was awarded the Best Jury and Most Popular film award at Rencontres Cinematographiques.

Plot

The Story is about a little village of Bakuri, where water scarcity leads to a man named Parshuram Sarpat, to continuously dig for water resulting in the recognition as 'The pagal parsha'. Vasanta, another young man who gets married on insistence of his father to Phulwanti. Soma, who sees the MUMBAI as the solution for his unemployment.

The story narrates how Vasanta's father takes loan for his marriage against his wish. yet, he had a great start in married life. Soma looking for work from local landlord ,unable to get, goes to Mumbai to work in Cotton Mill, living among 40 others , working and surviving all in the same debt, work , merely 8 hour sleep shift , away from family since so many years yet hoping to give them support from their hard work.

Vasanta too, could not find sustaining work after marriage leaves for Mumbai. Hansa along with Phoolwanti starts working in a Bidi factory , 5 km away from village.

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