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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Holi<br />
| image = Holi - 1984 Movie Poster.jpg<br />
| caption = Poster<br />
| director = [[Ketan Mehta]]<br />
| producer = [[Pradeep Uppoor]]<br />
| writer = [[Ketan Mehta]]<br />
| screenplay = [[Mahesh Elkunchwar]]<br />
| story = Mahesh Elkunchwar (play)<br />
| starring = [[Aamir Khan]]<br>[[Om Puri]]<br>[[Naseeruddin Shah]]<br>[[Ashutosh Gowariker]]<br>[[Raj Zutshi]]<br />
| music = Rajat Dholakia<br />
| cinematography = Jehangir Choudhary <br />
| editing = Subhash Sehgal <br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{film date|1984|8|15|df=yes}}<br />
| runtime = 120 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Holi''''' is a [[Bollywood films of 1984|1984]] Indian [[Coming of age film|coming-of-age]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Ketan Mehta]], whose socially conscious work has been compared to American director [[Spike Lee]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071223032116/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/153179/Holi/overview Overview], ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> It is based on eponymous play by Marathi writer, [[Mahesh Elkunchwar]].<ref name="nyt">[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE1D61238F93BA35757C0A963948260 Holi (1984)- Movie Review], ''[[New York Times]]'', 8 April 1985.</ref> The film starred [[Aamir Khan]], [[Ashutosh Gowariker]], [[Om Puri]], [[Shreeram Lagoo]], [[Deepti Naval]] and [[Naseeruddin Shah]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
In a typical college in a typical Indian city, the hostel boys Madan Sharma ([[Aamir Khan]]) and his friends including Ranjeet Prakash ([[Ashutosh Gowariker]]) are a rowdy and troublesome lot. But on one day, when Madan and his friends find out there will not be a holiday for them on the day of [[Holi]], the festival of colors, the boys decide not to attend classes.<br />
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The hostel superintendent Professor Singh ([[Naseeruddin Shah]]), the only lecturer with some links with the students, watches with apprehension their growing restlessness. A notice announcing a further postponement of examinations adds to the bitterness. A fight erupts out of nowhere between principal Phande's ([[Om Puri]]) nephew and another student; the principal's nephew is hurt and the other boy is promptly rusticated. This is seen as a drastic punishment, and the news spreads like wildfire to all the students of the college. Resistance is organized in the library, in the laboratory, in the classrooms and the college grounds as the students rebel against the principal. Principal calls professor Singh to give the name of the troublemakers but he refuses, the names are later given by one of the classmate and soon the boys are sent a suspension notice.<br />
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On their last day, the classmate is bullied and humilated by the boys. Next day they find out that their classmate has committed suicide and the film ends with boys taken in a police van while people dancing to holi celebrate outside.<br />
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==Songs==<br />
#"Na Koi Kaam" - [[Aamir Khan]]<br />
#"Yeh Kaisa Safar Hai" - [[Aamir Khan]]<br />
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==Production==<br />
''Holi'' was shot mainly on the campus of the [[Film and Television Institute of India]] (FTII), [[Pune]] and Fergusson College, Pune. The iconic Fergusson College banyan tree had just fallen and Ketan Mehta, who had studied at Fergusson College, improvised and picturised a song with the main characters on the tree singing about the falling of a symbolic 'system'. This film was a part of student project.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Naseeruddin Shah]] as Professor Singh<br />
* [[Aamir Khan]] as Madan Sharma (credited as Aamir Hussain)<br />
* [[Ashutosh Gowariker]] as Ranjeet Prakash<br />
* [[Om Puri]]<br />
* [[Shreeram Lagoo]]<br />
* [[Deepti Naval]] as Professor Sehgal<br />
* [[Paresh Rawal]]<br />
* Dr. Sanjeev Gandhi<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gandhi|first1=Sanjeev|title=Dr|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304165/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm|website=IMDb}}</ref><br />
* [[Mohan Gokhale]]<br />
* [[Rajendranath Zutshi]]<br />
* [[Neeraj Vora]]<br />
* [[Dina Pathak]]<br />
* [[Kitu Gidwani]]<br />
* Dilip Dhawan<br />
* Himanshu Trivedi<br />
* Narendra Singh Arora<br />
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==Reception==<br />
In 1985, the film was reviewed in ''[[The New York Times]]'' by American film critic [[Vincent Canby]]. He gave the film a generally favourable review, writing that the "film, which the production notes report was largely improvised, is very decently and exuberantly performed by the nonprofessional actors."<ref name="nyt"/><br />
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==Awards==<br />
* 1985: [[National Film Award for Best Cinematography]]: Jehangir Choudhary<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087417/awards Awards] imdb.com.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|0087417|Holi}}<br />
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[[Category:1984 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films based on plays]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Ketan Mehta]]<br />
[[Category:Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography National Film Award]]<br />
[[Category:1980s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian coming-of-age drama films]]<br />
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