{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox film | image = File:Seepeeyan film poster.jpeg | director = Akash Jain | producer = Akash Jain | starring = Debashree Roy<br/>Kanwaljit Singh<Br/>Om Puri<br/>Ranjeet | music = Raghunath Seth | editing = Venketesh Naik | released = {{Film date|1984}} | country = India }} '''''Seepeeyan''''' ({{Translation|Oysters}}) is a 1984 Indian drama film produced and directed by Akash Jain.<ref>{{Cite book |last=III |first=Harris M. Lentz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMpZDwAAQBAJ&dq=Seepeeyan&pg=PA323 |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017 |date=2018-05-03 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-3318-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://movies.syzygy.in/censor/seepeeyan-celluloid |title=Seepeeyan (Celluloid) {{!}} Movies & Lyrics |website=movies.syzygy.in |language=en |access-date=27 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/seepeeyan-1990-0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209125900/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/seepeeyan-1990-0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 December 2017 |title=Seepeeyan |website=www.bbfc.co.uk |language=en |access-date=10 February 2018}}</ref> The film was edited by Venketesh Naik.<ref name=":0" /> The film revolves around a woman who plunges into a river after her boyfriend refused to marry her, but is saved by another man of inferior caste whom she marries.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OpkAAAAMAAJ |title=The cinemas of India |last=Thoraval |first=Yves |date=1 February 2000 |publisher=Macmillan India |isbn=9780333934104 |language=en}}</ref> It stars Debashree Roy, Kanwaljit Singh and Om Puri in the leading roles.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/seepeeyan-5720 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115205447/https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/seepeeyan-5720 |url-status=live |archive-date=15 November 2017 |title=Seepeeyan (1984) - Cinestaan.com |website=Cinestaan |access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://onemovieavenue.com/movies/1248749-seepeeyan#comment |title=Seepeeyan - One Movie Avenue |website=One Movie Avenue |access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.onlinevinylshop.com/index.php/latest-product/seepeeyan-sflp-1015-movie-lp-vinyl-record.html |title=Online Vinyl Shop, Vinyl Records For Sale Online, Buy Vinyl Record |website=www.onlinevinylshop.com |language=en |access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Francis Bridget |title={{!}}{{!}} SEEPIYAN super Hot Promo love story ( Om puri & Debosree Roy) |date=14 September 2016 |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDpERdncK28 |accessdate=15 November 2017}}</ref> The music of the film was composed by Raghunath Seth.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Raghunath-Seth-Seepeeyan/release/9042138 |title=Raghunath Seth - Seepeeyan |website=Discogs |date=1984 |language=en |access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref>

The film created ripples in the eighties due to its themes of pre-marital sex.The film received mixed reviews from the critics and was a hit at box office.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38527144 |title=Om Puri: The actor who never got his due |date=2017 |work=BBC News |access-date=15 November 2017 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":3" />

==Plot== Kalyani is a young beautiful woman who falls in love with a young man named Jeetu. Jeetu confesses his love for Kalyani and promises her to be always by her side. Kalyani and Jeetu make love. After her mother's death, Kalyani proposes to Jeetu to get married. Jeetu declares that he is not willing to spend the rest of his life with Kalyani. Kalyani feels like she has been deceived and loses all the yearning for her life. She plunges into a river they were standing beside and is drifted to somewhere else where a man named Gokul finds her unconscious on the surface of the water. Gokul brings her to his home and cures her well. Kalyani marries Gokul. Eventually Jeetu learns that Kalyani has been married to a man of an inferior caste. Jeetu meets her and confesses that he is contrite for what he told her earlier and now he wants her back in his life. He also tries to persuade her that she cannot spend the rest of her life with a man like Gokul who belongs to an indigent lower caste. Gokul overhears what Jeetu says to Kalyani and he insists that she return to Jeetu. But she remains resolute. She declares that she has fallen for Gokul and is not willing to leave him at any cost. Gokul is overjoyed to have heard this and they embrace.

==Cast== * Kanwaljit Singh as Jeetu * Debashree Roy as Kalyani * Om Puri as Gokul * Ranjeet

==Music== #" Aayenge Tere Dwar Maata" - Mahendra Kapoor #"Jeevan Pal Do Pal Ka Saathi" - Anoop Jalota #"Kya Kahen Kisse Kahen" - Bhupinder Singh #"Main Titli Rango Ki Kali" - Alka Yagnik #"O Badhau Na Mohe Dibiya" - Alka Yagnik<ref>{{Citation |title=Seepeeyan |url=https://gaana.com/album/seepeeyan |website=Gaana.com |access-date=10 March 2019}}</ref>

==Reception== The role played by Roy was reviewed as a borrowed idea from ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' by Thomas Hardy as her character gets seduced and deceived by the male lead played by Kanwaljit Singh.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8ABAAAQBAJ&q=sumitra+devi&pg=PA1994-IA432 |title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema |last1=Rajadhyaksha |first1=Ashish |last2=Willemen |first2=Paul |date=10 July 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135943257 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |url=http://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-news/bygone-stars-of-eighties/ |title=Bygone Stars of Eighties |website=www.koimoi.com |access-date=11 February 2018}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |url=https://filmzack.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/the-unsurpassable-roy/ |title=The Superlative Roy |date=30 December 2017 |work=Filmzack |access-date=11 February 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Filmzack wrote: "Her role, somehow reminds us of Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, whose innocence is ripped apart by the debauched manhood."<ref name=":2" />

[[File:Seepeeyan.jpeg|right|thumb|The gaze which demonstrates the subtle incongruence in the conjugal life of Kalyani and her husband Gokul. The gaze was reviewed as an alteration of any cinematic sequence to manifest the discordance of relationship between a woman of an upper periphery of society and a man of a lower caste.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |url=https://filmsack.jimdo.com/lesser-known-facts-about-debasree-roy/ |title=Lesser Known Facts about Debasree Roy |website=filmsack |language=en-US |access-date=11 February 2018 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805191230/https://filmsack.jimdo.com/lesser-known-facts-about-debasree-roy/ |archivedate=5 August 2017 }}</ref> (Om Puri and Debashree Roy in a sequence of the film)]]

Roy gained mixed review for her performance. She was adulated for her gaze but criticised as well for her whimpering performance in some of the sequences especially when Kalyani learns her mother has died.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

Om Puri was applauded for his role in the film.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/om-puri-his-life-dreams-struggles-and-accomplishments-in-his-own-words-3191180.html/amp |title=Om Puri: His life, dreams, struggles and accomplishments in his own words |work=Firstpost |access-date=10 February 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Filmzack wrote: "It's a real hard thing to find out a single rift in his performance and this time also, there is no exception."<ref name=":2" />

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Category:1984 films Category:1984 Hindi-language films Category:Hindi-language drama films