Listen... Amaya
2013 film
Listen... Amaya is a 2013 Hindi drama film directed by Avinash Kumar Singh, and starring Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval and Swara Bhaskar as leads. The film also marks the return of popular lead pair of the 1980s, Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval, in films like, Chashme Buddoor (1981), Saath Saath (1982), and Katha (1983), together again on screen after 25 years. This was also their last film together, as Farooq Shaikh died several months after the film's release.
Plot
The film is set in Delhi, where a widowed mother, Leela, runs the library cafe "Book a Coffee." Here she makes a new friend, a widowed photographer, Jayant "Jazz," and soon finds their friendship growing. However, Leela's daughter, Amaya, a budding writer, feels insecure about the relationship when she finds out about it. While she collaborates with Jazz on producing a coffee table book about the bazaars of Old Delhi, when her mother takes her relationship with Jazz further, she is unable to accept it. The journeys of all the principal characters and a subtle twist at the end make up the narrative of the film.
Cast
Farooq Shaikh as Jayant Sinha
Deepti Naval as Leela Krishnamoorthy
Swara Bhaskar as Amaya Krishnamoorthy
Amala Akkineni as Sujata
Siddhant Karnick as Raghav
Shadab Khan as Tariq
Oroon Das as Abhay
Kriti Panth as Devika
Vidya Bhushan as Rizwaan bhai
Viren Basoya as Rahmat
Production
The film was shot mostly in Delhi, with a schedule of the filming of the lead pair shot in Delhi in September 2011. A song sequence, featuring Swara Bhaskar and Siddhant Karnick and based on a re-rendition of Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhaagi Si, was filmed in Mumbai.
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