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Sparsh(Movie, 1980)

2h 25min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
SparshRating: 3.8/5 (with 33 votes)
Sparsh (transl. Touch) is a 1980 Indian Hindi feature film directed by Sai Paranjpye. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi playing the characters of a visually impaired principal and a sighted teacher in a school for the blind, where they fall in love though soon their complexes tag along and they struggle to get past them to reconnect with the "touch" of love. The film remains most memorable for the subtle acting of its leads, plus the handling of the issue of relationships with the visually disabled, revealing the emotional and perception divide between the worlds of the "blind" and the "sighted", epitomized by the characters. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. However, the film's release was delayed by almost 4 years. The film won numerous awards including National Film Award – Best Actor for Naseeruddin Shah, while ()
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Awards & Nominations for Sparsh

Filmfare Award for Best Film

About Sparsh

Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. He runs a school for the blind as a Principal. He meets with the recently widowed Kavita. Kavita is attracted to him, and he slowly also gets attracted to her. When marriage is proposed, both agree to marry each other. Then Anirudh starts having doubts whether this marriage is going to succeed, as he feels he is being patronized, and pittied.

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Additional Information

Production country: India
Original language: Hindi (HI)
Spoken languages: Hindi (HI)
Translated into 2 languages: Bulgarian (BG), English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/30/1980
Director: Sai Paranjpye
Screenwriter: Sai Paranjpye
Composer: Kanu Roy
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"स्पर्श"
"Add a kezed!"

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Other movies with this title: Sparsh (US, 1997), Sparsh (CA, 2002), Sparsh (JP, 2005), Sparsh (2009), Sparsh (2010), Sparsh (US, 2011), Sparsh (KR, 2012), Sparsh (US, 2013), Sparsh (US, 2014), Sparsh (MK, 2016), Sparsh (IL, 2019), Sparsh (CN, 2019), Sparsh (2020)

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