Directed
by Awtar Krishna Kaul, starring Raakhee and M
K Raina is based on a Hindi novel Athara Sooraj Ke Paudhe by Ramesh Bakshi about a railways
employee who meets a girl on the train. The music of this film was composed by Hariprasad
Chaurasia and Bhubaneshwar Mishra
and production design by Bansi
Chandragupta. 27 Down won National Award for Best
Feature Film in Hindi as well as Best Cinematography for Apurba
Kishore Bir.
Shot on real location on Mumbai trains,
platforms, and at Mumbai's Victoria
Terminus station, the film was mostly shot at night to avoid
crowds and the cinematographer of the film, Apurba
Kishore Bir was just 22 years old and shot almost 70 percent of the
film using a hand-held
camera using a widelenses rather than the zooms
which was the practice that time. Another interesting facet was Bir chose to
shoot the film in black and white with stark contrasts rather than color.
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