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Garam Coat

1955 · 129 min

A slow, earnest portrait of poverty and paranoia that tightens like a knot before offering a glimmer of hope.

Directed by
Amar Kumar
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jayant, Nirupa Roy, Rashid Khan
Overview
Girdharilal lives a poor lifestyle in Delhi along with his wife, Geeta, and two daughters, and a son. He works as a Money Order Clerk in the Post Office, earns Rs.110/- per Mensem, and wears a torn coat that his wife is tired of stitching. One day at work, he makes an error in a money order but does manage to fix it, collects his pay, and returns home, refusing to drink...

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Directed by
Amar Kumar
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jayant, Nirupa Roy, Rashid Khan
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • class
  • family
  • guilt
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Amar Kumar
Written by
Rajinder Singh Bedi
Starring
Jayant, Nirupa Roy, Rashid Khan, Nazima, Indira, Master Ratan, Vijayalakshmi, Brahm Bhardwaj
Runtime
129 min
Country
India
Languages
Hindi

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