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Amal (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Hindi ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richie Mehta

Written By:
Richie Mehta
Shaun Mehta

Actors:
Rupinder Nagra ..... Amal Kumar
Naseeruddin Shah ..... G.K. Jayaram
Seema Biswas ..... Advocate Sapna Agarwal
Koel Purie ..... Pooja Seth
Vik Sahay ..... Vivek Jayaram
Roshan Seth ..... Suresh Gupta
Tanisha Chatterjee ..... Priya
Siddhant Behl ..... Harish Jayaram
Amardeep Jha ..... Radha Kumar
Maya Mankotia ..... Simran Jayaram
Dr. Shiva ..... Dr. Shiva
Gurpreet Chana ..... The Tabla Guy
Mukesh Chhabra ..... Subhash
Vijay Deepak Chhiber ..... Ram Agarwal
Sanjiv Chopra ..... Thakur 'Godfather'

Synopsis:

New Delhi-based Amal Kumar lives a poor lifestyle along with his widowed mother, Radha, and drives a three-wheeled auto rickshaw for a living, fully aware that his livelihood is threatened by the soon-to-be commissioned Metro. He is kind, honest, compassionate and generous to a fault, even decides to sell his auto to pay for the surgery of a homeless girl, Priya, who stole from his passenger, Pooja Seth, and takes up a job in a post office. Amal does not know that he has been chosen to be the sole heir by a deceased eccentric millionaire, G.K. Jayaram, and also does not know that Jayaram's children, as well as others, will leave no stone unturned to ensure that Amal does not get a single Paisa.

Amal, a multi-layered portrait of contemporary India, follows an auto-rickshaw driver in New Delhi (Amal [played by Rupinder Nagra]) who is content with his small, but vital role in life. One day he drives an eccentric billionaire (G.K. Jayaram [played by Naseeruddin Shah]) who, disguised as a vagabond, is searching the streets for the last morsel of humanity, and someone he can leave all his money to, and [Amal's] life may change forever. Amalserves up a visual feast for audiences. Filmed on location in New Delhi, India, this modern day fable asks the important question of what success means to each individual and ultimately reveals that the poorest of men are sometimes the richest. -Short Synopsis from Amal's Press Kit [edited by Christopher Taguchi]

Autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small, but vital, role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. With only one month to discover and claim the inheritance, Amal's struggles with duty and wealth are threatened by all those around him - from a young injured beggar girl and a lovely store merchant, to the danger of the old man's upper-caste friends and siblings, all seeking to claim their share of the riches.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 30 August, 2011.

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