Nil Battey Sannata (2015)
100 min
Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong decision: she will herself go back to school, and even join the class of her daughter.
- Release date
- April 22, 2016
- Country of origin
- India
- Box office
- $960,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Swara Bhasker as Chanda Sahay
- Ratna Pathak Shah as Dr. Diwan
- Pankaj Tripathi as Principal Shrivastava
- Sanjay Suri as District Collector
- Riya Shukla as Apeksha Sahay
- Riya Shukla as Appu
- Vishal Nath as Amar
- Neha Prajapati as Sweety
- Prashant Tiwari as Pintu
- Aditi Tailang as Grown up Appu
- Ganesh Kumar as Hindi teacher
Crew
- Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari · Director
- Nitesh Tiwari · Writer
- Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari · Writer
- Neeraj Singh · Writer
- Pranjal Choudhary · Writer
- Alan McAlex · Producer
- Aanand L. Rai · Producer
- Ajay Rai · Producer
- Sanjay Shetty · Producer
- Naren Chandavarkar · Composer
- Vinayak Salvi · Composer
- Benedict Taylor · Composer
- Rohan Utpat · Composer
- Gavemic U Ary · Cinematographer
- Chandrashekhar Prajapati · Editor
- Mukesh Chhabra · Casting director
- Laxmi Keluskar · Production designer
- Sandeep Meher · Production designer