I ran into Sai Paranjpaye outside the Taj Krishna where she was a guest/direstor for the Children’s Film Festival (Hyderabad)- I gave her a "high five" with this fun, great film on my mind.
A seriies of humourous vignettes - yes, I can "follow" hindi! Deepti Naval is charming as the less known character actors pursue love and smokes( a cute tirade with a paan/cigarette-wallah is in the film too). The "gang" of friends portrayed in the film were typical of my own Indian friends in Mumbai and Hyderabad - cool, poverty stricken and simply fun to be with.
Whatever happened to Sai Paranjpaye? I had seen SPARSH - released when I was a teen back in the 70s and loved the "before-its-times" plot and direction. Nasirudhin did his "standard" art film act - but it was the uniqueness of her direction that impressed me in this and in the later(1981?) CHASME BUDOOR.