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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Hari-Bhari<br />
| image = <br />
| caption = <br />
| director = [[Shyam Benegal]]<br />
| producer = [[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]]<br />
| writer = Priya Chandrasekar (Screenplay)<br />[[Shama Zaidi]] (Screenplay & Dialogue)<br />
| story = <br />
| starring = [[Shabana Azmi]]<br />[[Rajit Kapur]]<br />[[Rajeshwari Sachdev]]<br />[[Nandita Das]]<br />
| music = [[Vanraj Bhatia]]<br />
| cinematography = Rajan Kothari<br />
| editing = Aseem Sinha<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|2000}}<br />
| runtime = 134 minutes<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[Hindi]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Hari-Bhari''' (Fertility) is a 2000 [[Hindi]] film by [[Shyam Benegal]], starring [[Shabana Azmi]], [[Rajit Kapur]], [[Rajeshwari Sachdev]], [[Surekha Sikri]] and [[Nandita Das]] in the lead roles.<br />
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The film revolves around the story of five women, belonging to different generations, each looking emancipation and the right to run their lives their own way. The film's main theme is the issue of women's '[[Reproductive rights|fertility rights]]' empowerment.<br />
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The film won the 2000 [[National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
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The movie tells the story of a middle aged Muslim woman Gazala (Shabana Azmi), who is ill-treated by her husband and sent back to her parents’ home, just because she is unable to give birth to a son. Gazala does have a daughter Salma (Rajeshwari Sachdev). The plot revolves around Gazala's stay at her mother's home and the problems faced by the women of the house, namely her mother and sisters-in-law. The film is a beautiful description of the problems faced by women in the name of fertility, or in a different sense the urge to have a male child, especially in rural India.<br />
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[[Shyam Benegal]] provides a masterpiece, reflecting on the sorrowful plight of rural Indian women. The irony lies in the point where the movie begins with a scene which shows a bull being brought to impregnate a buffalo. Five different women, each with a different story depicting the harsh realities of a woman's life.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Shabana Azmi]] as Ghazala<br />
* [[Rajit Kapur]] as Khurshid<br />
* [[Rajeshwari Sachdev]] as Salma<br />
* [[Surekha Sikri]] as Hasina<br />
* [[Nandita Das]] as Afsana<br />
* [[Seema Bhargava]] as Rampyari<br />
* [[Lalit Tiwari]] as Khaleej<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0272651|title=Hari-Bhari}}<br />
* [http://www.rediff.com/entertai/1999/jul/28shy.htm Shyam Benegal interview on ''Hari-Bhari''] at [[Rediff.com]].<br />
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{{Shyam Benegal}}<br />
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[[Category:2000 films]]<br />
[[Category:2000s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Shyam Benegal]]<br />
[[Category:Films about women in India]]<br />
[[Category:Reproductive rights]]<br />
[[Category:Indian feminist films]]<br />
[[Category:Women's rights in India]]<br />
[[Category:Best Film on Family Welfare National Film Award winners]]<br />
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