Samaantar

Samaantar
File:Samaantar.jpg DVD cover
Directed by	Amol Palekar
Written by	Sandhya Gokhale
Starring	Amol Palekar Sharmila Tagore
Music by	Anand Modak
Cinematography	Asim Bose
Edited by	Abhijit Deshpande
Production company	Reliance Big Pictures
Distributed by	Reliance Big Pictures
Release dates	4 September 2009 (2009-09-04)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	India
Language	Marathi

Samaantar (Parallel) is a 2009 Marathi film directed by Amol Palekar and starring Palekar himself and Sharmila Tagore in the lead roles. This is Sharmila's first Marathi film. Director Amol Palekar's previous film in the dual role of actor-director was Ankahee (1985).

Plot

Keshav Vaze (Amol Palekar) is an eminent businessman who has grown into an industrialist struggling through his life, rising from a small village. He is separated from his college sweetheart Shama (Sharmila Tagore) due to an earthquake in which he loses his family & is left to take care of several young siblings, cousins. Shama is bearing a child of Keshav & goes into a state of shock and dismay when he does not return for months at end. When Keshav returns he does not find Shama where he left her and assumes she is dead after a few years. At his 60th birthday, a glimpse of Shama strikes him of how he and his yesteryear soulmate have walked on different and parallel ways.

Cast

• Amol Palekar as Keshav Vaze
• Sharmila Tagore as Shama Vaze
• Radhika Apte as Reva (Keshav's adopted daughter)
• Sameer Dharmadhikari as Keshav's biological son
• Aishwarya Narkar
• Kishor Kadam
• Rishi Deshpande
• Sandeep Mehta
• Makrand Deshpande
• Vandana Gupte

External links

• Samaantar at IMDb