Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) poster
1998 · drama · political · naxalite · mother

Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa

Directed by Govind Nihalani2h 32m1998
ElsewhereIMDb7.6305TMDB7.910
  • heavy
  • measured
  • intense
Movie DNA

Heavy, measured, extreme drama / political, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A bank worker tries to understand her son's actions after he dies in a revolutionary movement.

Our read · Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · political · naxalite entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want an Indian political drama of a mother confronting her revolutionary son legacy.

ends devastatingit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 20attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou avoid heavy grief or left-wing political themes in film.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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