{{short description|2001 film by Govind Nihalani}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Deham | image = Deham_the_Movie.jpg | caption = | director = Govind Nihalani | producer = | writer = Govind Nihalani | based_on = {{based on|''Harvest''|Manjula Padmanabhan}} | starring = {{ubl|Kitu Gidwani|Joy Sengupta|Alyy Khan|Surekha Sikri|Julie Ames}} | music = Roy Venkatraman | cinematography = Govind Nihalani | editing = Deepa Bhatia | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2001}} | runtime = 120 minutes | country = India | language = English }} '''''Deham''''' (The Body) is a 2001 film directed by Govind Nihalani based on playwright Manjula Padmanabhan's play ''Harvest''. It has Kitu Gidwani, Joy Sengupta, Alyy Khan, Surekha Sikri and Julie Ames in lead roles. It is a futuristic story depicting the organ sale from relatively poorer countries to the rich.<ref name=Hindu>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/04/29/stories/2002042900440100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020615234401/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/04/29/stories/2002042900440100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 June 2002|work=The Hindu| title=Twenty Years After Ardh Satya | date= 29 April 2002|access-date=6 July 2015}}</ref> Nihalani himself called it a "serious social sci-fi film".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/story/20020506-govind-nihalani-to-make-first-futuristic-film-in-india-795338-2002-05-05|publisher=India Today|title=Sci-fi with a human face|date=6 May 2002|access-date=6 July 2015|archive-date=10 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710030116/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/govind-nihalani-to-make-first-futuristic-film-in-india/1/219878.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Deham'' won the Netpac (Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema) award for the Best Asian Film at the 25th Goteborg Film Festival, 2002, in Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Deham-gets-Best-Asian-Film-award/articleshow/486819.cms|title=Deham gets Best Asian Film award|date=9 February 2002|publisher=Times of India|access-date=6 July 2015}}</ref>
==Plot== It's 2022. Om Prakash, a jobless young man lives with his wife Jaya, mother and younger brother Jeetu in a one-room tenement in Mumbai. He falls for a multinational company's offer to provide his family a life of luxury for the rest of their lives in exchange for body organs for wealthy foreign clients. The family's life changes as he signs the contract. They lose their privacy as the company watches their every move. As part of the contract, Om has to pose as a bachelor and Jaya, his wife, is forced to call herself his sister. But Jeetu, who works as a gigolo, refuses to permit himself to be controlled and walks out of home. After few months as Om, Jaya and his mother, are growing accustomed to their new life, Jeetu comes back, battered and beaten. As Jaya nurses him the time for the organ transplants comes. The company officials come and take away Jeetu instead of Om for the transplants. Jaya, who has been putting up with it all for long, finally, refuses to become a party to the contract and chooses freedom instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/bollywood/preview.php?ctid=5&cid=2425&id=11382662|website=Sify| title=Deham |access-date=6 July 2015}}{{dead link|date=September 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name=rediff>{{cite web|url= http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/may/03deham1.htm|publisher=Rediff| title=An out of body experience |access-date=6 July 2015}}</ref>
==Cast== *Kitu Gidwani as Jaya *Joy Sengupta as Om Prakash *Alyy Khan as Jeetu, Om's brother *Surekha Sikri as Om's mother *Julie Ames as Virginia, the American organ-buyer
==Reception== Pramila N. Phatarphekar of ''Outlook'' called the film's vision "impaired." She further wrote, "Unforgivably bludgeoning Manjula Padmanabhan's cleverly-crafted play with poor FX and miserly production values, Nihalani stumbles."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/deham/215537|publisher=Outlook|title=Deham - Showtime|date=13 May 2002|access-date=6 July 2015|archive-date=6 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706132535/http://www.outlookindia.com/article/deham/215537|url-status=live}}</ref>
Priya Ganapati of Rediff.com wrote, "What makes it an utter disaster is its combination of a terrible screenplay, stilted acting, poor dialogues and more important, an inability to infuse soul or imagination to a plot that in its very premise demands an abundance of it."<ref name=rediff/>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0252363|title=Deham}}
{{Govind Nihalani}}
Category:2001 films Category:Indian films based on plays Category:English-language Indian films Category:Films directed by Govind Nihalani Category:Indian science fiction drama films Category:Films set in 2022 Category:Films set in Mumbai Category:2000s science fiction drama films Category:2001 English-language films Category:Films about organ trade Category:English-language science fiction drama films