Maya Memsaab
| Maya Memsaab माया मेमसाब | |
|---|---|
 DVD Cover | |
| Directed by | Ketan Mehta |
| Produced by | Ketan Mehta |
| Written by |
Sitanshu Yashaschandra(screenplay) Ketan Mehta (screenplay) Hriday Lani (dialogue) Gulan Kriplani (Maya's monologues) |
| Based on | Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
| Starring |
Shah Rukh Khan Deepa Sahi Farooq Shaikh Raj Babbar Paresh Rawal |
| Music by |
Hridayanath Mangeshkar Gulzar (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Anoop Jotwani |
| Edited by | Renu Saluja |
Release dates | 2 July 1993 |
| Language | Hindi |
Maya Memsaab (Hindi: माया मेमसाब), also known as Maya and Maya: The Enchanting Illusion in English) is a 1993 Hindi film directed by Ketan Mehta. The film is based on Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. Maya Memsaab won the National Film Award- Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film) in the year 1993. [1]
Synopsis
Young, beautiful and intelligent Maya (Deepa Sahi) lives with her father in a palatial mansion in rural India. When her father suffers stroke, she calls for local Dr.Charu Das, who arrives on his bicycle and prescribes treatment for her father. He comes pretty often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually they get married. Years pass by and Charu is engrossed in treating patients, leaving Maya alone to reflect on her own fate and life. And it is not long before a young man named Rudra enters her life and an affair follows. This does not last long, as a much younger man Lalit (Shah Rukh Khan) now enters her life and they begin a passionate affair. But again, Maya is not satisfied as she longs for more than bodily needs. All the time this bored housewife gets attracted to costly objects and spends recklessly on clothes, furniture etc even if she has to borrow. She mortgages even her house to Lalaji. Finally reality catches up with her. Lalaji brings court order to take possession of her house. Her friends (Rudra , Lalit) desert her and it is perhaps this that leads to her sudden death, leaving two investigators to probe who or what really killed Maya.
Cast
- Shah Rukh Khan as Lalit
- Deepa Sahi as Maya
- Farooque Shaikh as Dr. Charu Das
- Raj Babbar as Rudra
- Paresh Rawal as Lalaji
Soundtrack
All lyrics written by Gulzar; all music composed by Hridayanath Mangeshkar.
| Songs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Playback | Length |
| 1. | "Chhaya Jagi" | Hridayanath Mangeshkar | |
| 2. | "Ek Haseen Nigah Ka" | Kumar Sanu | |
| 3. | "Khud Se Baatein" | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 4. | "Mere Sarahane Jalao Sapne" | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 5. | "Ek Haseen Nigah Ka female" | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 6. | "O Dil Banjare" | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 7. | "Yeh Shehar Bada" | Lata Mangeshkar | |