Masaan

Masaan (transl. ’Crematorium’; also known as Fly Away Solo in English) is a 2015 drama film directed by Neeraj Ghaywan.^[1] The directorial debut film is an Indo-French co-production produced by Drishyam Films, Macassar Productions, Phantom Films, Sikhya Entertainment, Arte France Cinema and Pathé Productions.^[2] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival winning two awards.^[3][4][5] Ghaywan previously assisted Anurag Kashyap on Gangs Of Wasseypur.^[6][7] The film was screened at the inaugural New York Dalit Film and Cultural Festival in 2019 along with Pariyerum Perumal (2018), Kaala (2018) and Fandry (2013).^[8]

Masaan 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.

• Sanjay Mishra as Vidyadhar Pathak
• Richa Chadda as Devi Pathak
• Vicky Kaushal as Deepak Kumar
• Vineet Kumar as Dom Raja^[10]
• Shweta Tripathi as Shaalu Gupta
• Pankaj Tripathi as Sadhya
• Shree Dhar Dubey as KK
• Bhagwan Tiwari as Inspector Mishra
• Nikhil Sahni as Jhonta
• Satya Kam Anand as Vikram Mallah
• Niharica Raizada in a special appearance

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