Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin

Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin
Directed by	Sudhir Mishra
Produced by	Sudhir Mishra
Written by	Sudhir Mishra
Starring	Manohar Singh Habib Tanvir B. M. Shah Pankaj Kapur Sushmita Mukherjee Naseeruddin Shah
Music by	Rajat Dholakia
Cinematography	Devlin Bose
Edited by	Renu Saluja
Release dates	1986
Running time	132 min
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (English: This Is Not Our Destination) is a 1987 Hindi drama film written and directed by Sudhir Mishra, in a directorial debut. It starred Manohar Singh, Habib Tanvir, B. M. Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Sushmita Mukherjee and Naseeruddin Shah in lead roles.^[1]

At the 34th National Film Awards, it won the award for Best First Film of a Director.^[2]

The Plot

Three schooling friends now old men, are travelling by train from Bombay to Rajpur for the centenary celebration at their boarding school. On their journey, they recall their days of student activism, and failures. Upon reaching they find once again confronted by political skirmishes, which reminds them of events wherein they failed to uphold their conscience.

Cast

Manohar Singh as Shamsher Singh
Habib Tanvir as Akhtar Baig
B. M. Shah as Murlimanohar Joshi
Pankaj Kapur as Rohit, student leader
Sushmita Mukherjee as Savita, journalist
Naseeruddin Shah as Trivedi, Industrialist
Ajit Vachani as Police Superintendent
Lalit Tiwari as Srikant
Rajendra Gupta as Vice-Chancellor Asthana
Kusum Haider as Ismat
Alok Nath
Raja Bundela as Uttam Trivedi, the Industrialist's Son
Rajendranath Zutshi
Vimal Banerjee as DIG Mishra
Swadesh Bandhu as City Magistrate

References

↑ "Yeh woh manzil to nahin (1987)". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
↑ "34th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 7 January 2012.

External links

National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director

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