Tarang (film)

Tarang English Wages and Profits is a 1984 Indian drama film written and directed by Kumar Shahani. The film is Shahanis second feature film after his most famous work, Maya Darpan, and took him more thanyears to raise funding for. The movie is considered, along with Shahanis other features, to be a seminal work of Indias Parallel Cinema movement. The movie stars several big actors who were prominent in the Indian art cinema scene of the early 80s, including Amol Palekar, Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Om Puri, and Shreeram Lagoo.

Unlike Maya Darpan, Tarang is considered to be uncharacteristically traditional and conventional for a Kumar Shahani film. Its storyline follows a typical arch, and the film also features several song sequences, considered normal for mainstream Bollywood films, but very abnormal for an independent parallel cinema film. In an interview on the film, Shahani stated his approach was to take into account the way our traditions are surviving in popular art. Both folk and popular art always have epic elements. Even pulp literature is a distortion of the epic form.The Seventh Art film blog reviewed the film positively stating, A staunch Marxist, Shahani examines the class struggle on multiple fronts in the writing that nearly recites the labour theory of value, in the densely layered soundtrack where various voices vie for power and the casting, where the star value of the actors is in conflict with the characters they play. ........

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