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{{Infobox film
| name = Party
| image = Party by Govind Nahalani, 1984.jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Govind Nihalani]]
| producer = [[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]]
| writer = [[Govind Nihalani]] (screenplay) [[Mahesh Elkunchwar]] (play) [[Vasant Dev]] (asst. dialogue)
| story =
| starring = [[Manohar Singh]] [[Vijaya Mehta]] [[Rohini Hattangadi]] [[Om Puri]] [[Naseeruddin Shah]]
| music =
| cinematography = [[Govind Nihalani]]
| editing = [[Renu Saluja]]
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1984}}
| runtime = 118 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INRConvert|55|l|year=1984}}
| gross = {{INRConvert|49|l|year=1984}}
}}

'''''Party''''' is a 1984 [[Hindi]]-language film directed by [[Govind Nihalani]]. The film boasted an ensemble cast of leading art cinema actors of [[Parallel Cinema]],<ref>[http://dearcinema.com/party-a-tale-of-claustrophobia/ Party: A Tale Of Claustrophobia]</ref> including [[Vijaya Mehta]], [[Manohar Singh]], [[Om Puri]], [[Naseeruddin Shah]], and [[Rohini Hattangadi]]. It based on the play ''Party'' (1976) by [[Mahesh Elkunchwar]].

The movie was produced by [[National Film Development Corporation of India]] (NFDC). ''Party'' was the official Indian entry to the 32nd [[International Film Festival of India]], New Delhi, and also took part in the Tokyo Film Festival 1985 and Asia Pacific Film Festival 1985.<ref name=nf>[http://www.nfdcindia.com/view_film.php?film_id=39 Party 1984 at NFDC]</ref>

==Overview==

Shot in real-time, lasting most of an evening, except for a few initial scenes to set the context — which show the people invited to the party, just before the party, getting ready, looking forward to going or cribbing about having to go — and a harrowing finale.

The film is a deeply intelligent satire aimed at the urban elite — especially those poseurs with artistic inclinations, namely establishment-artists and their patrons. It depicts their apathy towards the society at large while they get away, by the way of small talk and prosaic conversations at parties.

The power of the movie derives from Elkunchwar's play — which had a very successful run in Marathi theatres in Pune and Bombay, before Govind Nihalani turned it, with the author's active participation, into a screenplay.

Nihalani had just made ''Ardh-Satya'' — which had been a surprise break-away hit for alternative cinema (or [[Parallel Cinema]] as it is called in India) and it was easier for him to get generous financing from the government public sector company NFDC (later declared bankrupt and closed soon after the assassination of art movie aficionado Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]).

There is some speculation that it was not being offered a role in this movie, and two others, which so disillusioned art house diva [[Smita Patil]] that she switched to doing mainstream Bollywood movies.

==Plot and technique==

The entire action is confined to an evening party hosted by Damyanti Rane ([[Vijaya Mehta]]), a rich middle-age widow and well-known patron of the arts in the city. All the cognoscenti of the urban milieu make a beeline to the event.

The party is hosted in the honour of Diwakar Barve ([[Manohar Singh]]), a celebrated playwright, who has just been awarded the prestigious National Literary Award. There are gradual revelations in conversations between attendees of the party — by turns catty, outraged, resigned and cynical — that he got the award because he is Damyanti's lover, who wields political clout, or a toady of the establishment.

Gradually, all the conversation gears towards the real winner, the hero-in-absentia: Amrit, an immensely talented and promising writer-poet who left the politics of the party circuit and literary societies to go live and work with the tribal community.

Amrit, though not present in person, shows himself again and again in their conversations reminding them and viewers of their banality, deceit, and their utter callousness towards the inequities in society at large, which brings them at cross-purposes to the true aim of all art and artistic endeavours: the ennoblement of humanity.

In a harrowing finale, which cuts to the heartland of the country, Amrit is shown to be murdered by the police as a "left-wing terrorist" approximately at the same time as the party was going on.

==Awards==

* 1985 [[National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress]]: [[Rohini Hattangadi]]
* 1985 Asia-Pacific Film Festival, Best Actress: [[Vijaya Mehta]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248289/awards Awards] imdb.</ref>

==Cast==
*[[Manohar Singh]] - Diwakar Barve
*[[Vijaya Mehta]] - Damyanti Rane
*[[Rohini Hattangadi]] - Mohini Barve, Diwakar's Wife
*[[Om Puri]] - Avinash, Journalist
*[[Naseeruddin Shah]] - Amrit
*[[Deepa Sahi]] - Sona Rane
*[[Amrish Puri]]- Doctor
*[[Shafi Inamdar]]
*[[Gulan Kripani]] - Vrinda
*[[Ila Arun]] - Ila
*[[Soni Razdan]] - Malvika (Vicky)
*[[Mohan Bhandari]] - Vicky's husband
*[[Jayant Kripalani]]
*[[K.K. Raina]]
*[[Kanvaljeet]]
*[[Pearl Padamsee]] - Ruth
*[[Nikhil Kapur]]
*[[Savita Prabhune]]
*[[Benjamin Gilani]] - Sahani
*[[Akash Khurana]]
*[[Ravi Jhankal]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0248289|title=Party}}
*[http://parallelcinema.blogspot.com/2005/11/party-1984.html A study of the film ''Party'']

{{Govind Nihalani}}

[[Category:1984 films]]
[[Category:1980s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian films based on plays]]
[[Category:Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress National Film Award-winning performance]]
[[Category:Films directed by Govind Nihalani]]

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