Cast:Anupam Kher, Sharmila Tagore, Rajit Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Shayan Munshi, Nargis, Avika
Release Date: 10 Jul 2009
Genre: Drama
Director: Aroop Dutta
Music Director: Jeet Gannguii
A heart attack makes Joymohan (Anupam Kher), a professor in Kolkata, take stock of his life and prompts him to move to Mumbai to spend time with his son Indra (Rajit Kapoor) and his family. Indra and his grand daughter Gargi (Avika Gor) are delighted to have him with them but his relationship with his daughter-in-law Rita (Divya Dutta) is strained.
A morning walk and a blast from the past brings some unexpected suprises into his life.
He meets Neelima (Sharmila Tagore), an old student and friend who is now a yoga instructor living with her daughter Anjali (Nargis). Neelima and Anjali’s boyfriend Ajay (Shyan Munshi) are supportive about Anjali’s decision to move to the USA for her studies.
The two families who live diverse lives are brought together by a truth that changes their lives in this warm and touching tale.
Morning Walk is a beautiful and heart tugging tale of two families different from one another yet connected through a special bond. It is about an old couple, who meet after decades.The old man discovers that he had a daughter from the women whom he courted years back.
Anupam Kher had been heading censor before Sharmila took over the seat and both the actors were previously seen together in a film called “Jawani.” Both will be doing a film “Morning Walk” together to potray the couple ,after a long gap.
One morning walk in Joymohan’s life changes it all…
Anupam Kher had been heading censor before Sharmila took over the seat and both the actors were previously seen together in a film called “Jawani.” Both will be doing a film “Morning Walk” together to potray the couple ,after a long gap.
One morning walk in Joymohan’s life changes it all…
After suffering a heart-attack one morning, on his birthday, Joymohan (Anupam Kher) realizes that he needs to spend more time with his family - son (Rajit Kapoor), daughter-in-law (Divya Dutta) and grand-daughter (Avika Gor)… and mend broken bridges of the past.
It is during his ‘Morning Walk’ that his life changes forever. He meets his once-upon-a-time-student and friend Neelima (Sharmila Tagore), now a mother of two, who carries with her a strange but surreal truth.
Neelima’s bright and beautiful daughter, Anjali (Nargis), dreams of pursuing her doctorate from the USA, and is encouraged by her doting mother and boyfriend Ajay (Shayan Munshi), an upcoming singer who will go to any lengths to put a smile on her face.
A beautiful and heart-tugging tale of two families who are so different from one another, yet connected through a special bond.
Nilima is a student of Presidency College. Joymohan is a lecturer. They are in love but must separate for certain reasons and meet after 10 years during a morning walk in Shimla. They are now married to different people. They take a trip down memory lane only to separate again. Their paths cross one more time 27 years later, during a morning walk on the streets of Mumbai. During this last stroll, Joymohan begins to suspect that he is probably the biological father of Nilima’s daughter.
For the first time, Sharmila Tagore and Anupam Kher are paired together in a film. Others in the cast are Nargis Bagheri who made a mark in Priyadarshan’s Garam Masala as Sharmila’s daughter and model Shayan Munshi who plays her fiancé. Rajit Kapoor plays Anupam’s son and Divya Dutta plays his wife. Soumili Biswas and Tanmoy Sengupta play the young versions of Nilima and Joymohan respectively. Suman Ranganathan and little Avika Gor who is playing the title role on Balika Vadhu on Colours, are also in the film.
Arup Dutta’s directorial debut Morning Walk is a Hindi film being shot in Kolkata because the story is set in Kolkata and opens during the disturbing days of the Naxalite revolution. Arup Dutta honed his skills in filmmaking with episodes for Balaji Telefilms and other production houses in Mumbai. The Kolkata-based Cinemawallah that also produced Rituparno Ghosh’s Utsab and Titli besides producing Anjan Dutt’s Bow Barracks Forever is producing the film.
“Morning Walk explores the relationship between Joymohan and Nilima and the title is significant because the morning walks form the backbone of the film’s narrative structure, each time functioning as a catharsis in the lives of the man and the woman as they grow older with time,” explained Dutta who is shooting at Kumartuli, Victoria Memorial, the Kolkata Race Course and Dakshineswar. The sound track comprised of a thumri sung by Rashid Khan and Shreya Ghoshal, has already been canned.
