| Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai | |
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| Directed by | Saeed Akhtar Mirza |
| Story by | Saeed Akhtar Mirza |
| Produced by | Saeed Akhtar Mirza |
| Starring | Naseeruddin Shah Shabana Azmi Smita Patil Om Puri |
| Cinematography | Virendra Saini |
| Edited by | Renu Saluja |
| Music by | Bhaskar Chandavarkar Manas Mukherjee |
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Running time | 110 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai (transl. What Makes Albert Pinto Angry?) is a 1980 IndianHindi-languagedrama film directed and written bySaeed Akhtar Mirza. The film starsNaseeruddin Shah,Shabana Azmi andSmita Patil.[1][2][3][4]
It won the 1981Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie.[citation needed]
The film captures the anger of a worker, in Mumbai exemplified by a young Christian car mechanic, Albert Pinto (Naseeruddin Shah), who is under the illusion that if he works hard and emulates the rich, one day he can also be successful. He makes friendly relations with his customers, who are usually the rich of the city and who keep telling him that good workers do not go on strike, and that strikes are the handiwork of low-class elements. Pinto gets angry with the supposedly wrong attitudes of the workers who he assumes go on strike under any pretext. However, when Pinto's father, a mill worker, is abused by goons hired by the mill owners, he realizes that it is not the workers, but the capitalists who should be blamed for the plight of the workers. He also realizes the legitimacy of strikes. Towards the end of the movie, Pinto still remains an angry man; but now his anger is directed against the capitalists, not the striking workers.[5]
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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| 1981 | Saeed Akhtar Mirza | Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie | Won |
In 2017 the film wasremade with the same title. With a cast ofManav Kaul,Nandita Das andSaurabh Shukla, the official remake was directed by Soumitra Ranade. It was premiered at 1st edition ofSingapore South Asian Film Festival held from 1 to 10 September 2017.[6] It released in theaters on 12 April 2019.[7]