Sparsh

The film is about a man who cannot see. He stands on his own feet. He runs a school for blind children. He keeps the order of the school with care. He refuses to pity his students. He asks them to do their own work. That stance can look hard at times. A woman comes to the school as a volunteer. She has recently lost her husband. She has withdrawn into herself. She starts working with the children. The two grow closer in time. The man guards his pride inside that closeness. The difference between being pitied and being loved is talked through. The film puts that difference at its centre. Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah appear in the one hundred forty five minute film, an Indian production Sai Paranjape finished in 1980.