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Masaan

Masaan

A Celebration Of Life, Death And Everything in Between

20157.11h 49m

Overview

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.

Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan
Written by Varun Grover, Neeraj Ghaywan
Produced by Guneet Monga, Manish Mundra, Anurag Kashyap
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Top Cast

Richa Chadha

Richa Chadha

Devi Pathak

Sanjay Mishra

Sanjay Mishra

Vidyadhar Pathak

Vicky Kaushal

Vicky Kaushal

Deepak Chaudhary

Shweta Tripathi Sharma

Shweta Tripathi Sharma

Shaalu Gupta

Vineet Kumar

Vineet Kumar

Doctor Choudhary

Pankaj Tripathi

Pankaj Tripathi

Sadhya Ji

Bhagwan Tiwari

Bhagwan Tiwari

Inspector Mishra

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Nikhil Sahni

Jhonta

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Niharica Raizada

Cameo Appearance

Themes & Keywords

small townloveguiltcaste systemsexual encounterinterlinked storiesgangespretty

About Masaan

Masaan is a drama film released in 2015 exploring themes of small town, love, guilt, caste system, sexual encounter, interlinked stories. Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, it stars Richa Chadha, Sanjay Mishra, Vicky Kaushal. Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.

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