29 Oct 2022
Opium
"Religion is opium," said Marx; this film, five short stories in genres from comedy to social issues and dystopian sci-fi, attempts to examine the religious situation in India from multiple perspectives.
Kishen Kanhaiya
Leela and Bholaram are a childless couple. Leela works as a midwife, and one day assists Sunderdas' wife to give birth to twin boys. She decides to keep one baby for herself, and tells Sunderdas that his wife has given birth to one child. There are complications for the mother, and she passes away without seeing her children. Leela and Bholaram bring up Kanhaiya, while Sunderdas attempts to bring up Kishen, but is unable to do a good job. So he marries Kamini, who comes along with her brother, Ghendamal, to live at the estate. She has an illegitimate child named Ramesh from another man, and when Sunderdas comes to know of this, he is threatened and attacked, and as a result of which he is paralyzed, unable to move.
Top Billed Cast
Anil Kapoor Kishen / Kanhaiya
Amrish Puri Lala Gendamal
Madhuri Dixit Anju
Kader Khan Munshi
Vikas Anand Doctor
Bindu Desai Kamini
Dinesh Hingoo Lokhandwala
Saeed Jaffrey Vidya Charan
Shubha Khote Leela
Sujit Kumar Bhola Ram
Shreeram Lagoo Sunder Das
Shilpa Shirodkar Radha
Ranjeet Bedi Sridhar
Johny Lever 
Dalip Tahil Mahesh
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