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Amal

Item number (ISN):

386082

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2007

Item number (ISN):

386082

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

POOR MAN'S PRODUCTIONS LTD.

Accession:

2008-0011

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2007

Production company:

Poor Man's Productions Ltd.

Production credit:

director/script, Richie Mehta; producer, David Miller; Steven N. Bray; Randi Kirshenbaum; Craig Merritt; executive producer, Peter Starr; Robin Cass; script, Shaun Mehta; photography, Mitchell T. Ness; editing, Stuart A. McIntyre; sound, Sanjay Mehta; Sunil Kumar; Steve Medeiros; sound editing, Jane Tattersall; Dale Sheldrake; Brent Pickett; Rob Warchol; music, Dr. Shiva

Cast credit:

Rupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah, Seema Biswas, Koël Purie, Vik Sahay, Roshan Seth, Tanisha Chatterjee

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Seville Pictures

Description:

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AMAL is a fiction feature directed by Richie Mehta based on the director's short film by the same title. The film takes place on the dusty, sweltering streets of New Delhi, where each day is a struggle to survive. Amal is a simple, hard-working and unassuming autorickshaw driver who enjoys chauffeuring his often unpleasant customers around the city. While Amal goes about his daily routine on the bustling Indian roads, a gravely-ill elderly billionaire, G.K. Jayaram, is re-examining his failing legacy. Not wanting to leave any inheritance to his ungrateful egotistical children, nor to his greedy colleagues whom he sees as money-sucking leeches, the old man decides to mask himself as a vagabond. His purpose is to find the two things his money has never brought him - hope for humanity and peace for his soul. Meanwhile, Amal is involved in a terrifying accident with a young beggar girl, Priya, which leaves her in serious condition. Compelled by his kind nature, Amal decides to do whatever it takes to raise enough money to save Priya's life. In this compassionate task, he is helped by the beautiful merchant Pooja. In the meantime, G.K. Jayaram, in his new role of a street tramp with an attitude, finds that his encounters with various people of New Delhi seem more confrontational than cordial. But, when he finds himself, almost by chance, in Amal's rickshaw, he is touched by the driver's kindness, which restores the old man's faith. Some time later, Jayaram dies, and his children are shocked when they find out that the inheritor of their father's big fortune is the grubby autorickshaw driver, Amal. Vivek, Jayaram's deviously volatile son, and Suresh, his estranged best friend and long-term assistant, form a bond to ruin, by all means possible, Amal's chances of claiming the inheritance. <1h 43mn 46s>

Language:

English / Hindi with English subtitles

Notes:

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1. Filmed on location in New Delhi, India.~2. Produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada; Astral Media - The Harold Greenberg Fund.~3. Produced in association with Citytv; Austin Capital Corporation; The Movie Network - an Astral Media Network; Movie Central - A Corus Entertainment Company.~4. Produced with the assistance/particpation of the Government of Canada - The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit; Government of Ontario - Film and Television Tax Credit administered by the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

Genre:

DRAMA

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

489690

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2009-02-0013

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

103:46

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

489691

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V8 2009-02-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

103:46

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

489692

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2009-02-0014
V7 2009-02-0015

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

103:46

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

808870

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

386082.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2009-02-0013

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

808871

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

386082.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2009-02-0013

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1190789

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

386082.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2009-02-0014

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1190790

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

386082.MOV

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2009-02-0014

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Rickshaw Films Ltd., 2007.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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