| Masala | |
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| Directed by | Srinivas Krishna |
| Written by | Srinivas Krishna |
| Produced by | Camelia Frieberg Srinivas Krishna |
| Starring | Srinivas Krishna Zohra Sehgal Saeed Jaffrey Sakina Jaffrey Madhuri Bhatia |
| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Edited by | Mike Munn |
| Music by | Leslie Winston |
Production company | Divani Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Masala is a 1991 Canadian drama film written and directed by Srinivas Krishna.[1] The film stars Zohra Sehgal as his grandmother; Saeed Jaffrey in a triple role as his uncle Lallu, a postal worker named Hariprasad and the Hindu god Krishna; and Sakina Jaffrey as Rita, Hariprasad's daughter.[2]
Krishna, an orphan in Toronto whose parents and siblings were killed several years earlier in the Air India Flight 182 explosion while travelling back to India for a family visit, and is now cleaning up his act after several years living on the streets as a drug addict and criminal.
In 2023, Telefilm Canada announced that the film was one of 23 titles that will be digitally restored under its new Canadian Cinema Reignited program to preserve classic Canadian films.[3]
The film received the Samuelson Award at the Birmingham International Film and Television Festival in 1991,[4] and Saeed Jaffrey received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 12th Genie Awards.[5]