Bazaar

The movie had so much angst of a particular faction of our society and as young man watching it still felt relatable. A Delight to see 1980 's Hyderabad depicted although which is relevant to the characters only.

I Have been born and brought up in a Hindu family in 21st century but the societal pressure of marriage and honor , its toxic side still feels relevant to some degree . The characters depicted , their hardships and dilemma are still relevant.

And the most important takeaway for me is the exploration of female characters , be it as a mother , as a lover , as vengeful negative dependent person, as helpless and powerless female under societal pressures really put things in perspective about challenges of a women in our society .

And its not one sided women is Oppressed only story , it seems to have better depth about it , a more holistic view of the theme which the makers were trying to explore.

For me its a must watch as its so honest and soulful movie of Hindi cinema which is such a rarity today. Of course its sad and tragic but rightly so , there isn't forced sadness but the theme is such.

Hope you find it relatable and get something value able out of it. Happy watching !

Bazaar is an excellent movie made in 1982. Sarju and Shabnam are in love but their love story end with such a tragedy that makes you think that socially acceptable and institutional ways of defining and allowing human relationship very often end up destroying the meaning of relationship itself.

Set up of the movie is typical lower class Indian society. Najma and Salim are also in platonic relationship. Salim is a writer and a thinker while Najma is a beautiful and young woman from a withered Nawab family. Due to bad financial situation her mother is asking her to trade her body to feed the family. Najma, who doesn't accept that, runs away with another man (Akhter) to Bombay. But her mental situation is never still since she loves her family but is not ready to sacrifice her youth for them. Although is a good man and he is also interested in marrying her and but his middle aged boss wants Najma and Akhter to look for a bride for him. In order to save his job and apartment Akhter persuades Najma to do something that leads to destruction of Sarju and Shabnam's love story.

Scenes from Hyderabad city in which poor parents are ready to do anything to get their daughter married are very impressive and well. All actors are very good, script, songs and costumes are fabulous. This movie was very advanced in its time of release. Even after 23 years since it release a large section of Indian society has not got the message of the movie. Western societies despite their own disadvantages are much much better systems in the perspective of this movie. Even today, girl child is seen as a burden in Indian society. Concept of single moms and even single parent is just not acceptable. Girls are identified either from the father's name or her husband's name. There is no third way. She doesn't have an identity on her own.

Najma, in the end, after a discussion with Salim, realizes that she has to have her own identity which doesn't have to come from either Akhter (her potential husband) or her parents (who want to sell her body to live!). So, she say goodbye to Akhter and goes with Salim, perhaps to find her ways to wash off her part of sins she committed in order to gain identity from Akhter.

A must see movie, If you want to understand worst part of Indian society and its solid institutional ways of doing things which are so fragile and delicate that they often get crushed.

A bunch of 7 melodious songs will haunt you forever.

In the 80s when Hindi cinema was rehashing the same old stories,some few filmmakers made Parallel films which had brilliant and many times hardly told stories. It had brilliant actors like Naseeruddin Shah,Smita Patil.etc Bazaar has a story of bribe buying which was prevalent in 80s. The film shocks you and moves you throughout. It has several brilliant scenes and till the end moves on one track though being slow paced at times which is excused

Direction is superb Music is good, with some melidious songs

Naseeruddin Shah is brilliant as always,this actor always excelled in such cinema. Smita Patil too is flawless, In the same year she did commercial cinema with films like Namak Halaal and Shakti Farooque Sheikh is amazing, Bharat Kapoor is good Supriya Pathak is brilliant, she won best supporting actress award sadly the only win for this film.

A great movie ! Especially the romantic scenes between Farooq and Supriya are sensitively depicted. A true classic piece of work ! An instructive lesson in movie making. Another rare gem from the alternative cinema of India. Khayyam scores once again. The actors play their roles extremely well. A true Sagar Sarhadi classic . This movie could have been instrumental in awakening the law enforcement agencies to a major bride buying racket that was going on in India in the 1980s. The victims were usually minors and the buyers were generally middle east sheiks. The story , especially the ending is a bit clichéd and thats the reason I give this movie 9 stars instead of 10.

the theme is hard hitting and powerful. A movie worth watching .

All the ugliness of society shown in it still exists.