Holi l Aamir Khan, Naseeruddin Shah l 1984

Synopsis : The tension between the management and the students reach the climax when it is decided that Holi is not going to be a holiday and instead there will be a lectures in the auditorium by the Chairman of the Board (Shriram Lagoo). On the day of the festival of fire, Holi, and the boys decide not to attend the classes. The hostel superintendent Professor Singh (Naseeruddin Shah), the only lecturer with some human 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, in which the principal’s nephew is hurt and the other boy is promptly rusticated. It is an unjustifiably drastic punishment, and the news spreads like wildfire. Resistance is organized in the library, in the laboratory, in the classrooms and the college grounds. In the auditorium, the first egg hits the Chairman, and pandemonium follows. The principal decides to find the culprits. He blackmails one of the hostel boys, whose father he knows, and who is in any case a loner, and a butt of jokes in the campus. Imbued with a false sense of power, the boy walks into the principal’s trap. A large group of boys, all from the hostel, are immediately rusticated, and asked to vacate their rooms by the morning. The boys, not all of them actually guilty of rebellion, are now all in a rage. They make a bonfire of the hostel furniture and their textbooks. Feeling impelled to share his sense of triumph, the informer confides in the boy whom he hates and fears the most, and whose name he has kept out of the list. As a result he is mercilessly humiliated by everyone, and just about manages to rush away from his tormentors and lock himself in his room. In the gathering dusk, the young rebels sit listlessly on the steps of the hostel, their anger giving way to depression, when one of them discovers the informer hanging from the fan in his room, quite dead.

Director: Ketan Mehta
Producer: Ketan Mehta, Pradeep Uppoor
Music: Rajat Dholakia
Main Cast: Aamir Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Sanjeev Gandhi, Sriram Lagoo… more
Genre: Drama, Social
Banner: Film Unit
Release: 1984

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