| Masala | |
| Director: | Srinivas Krishna |
| Producer: | Camelia Frieberg Srinivas Krishna |
| Starring: | Srinivas Krishna Zohra Sehgal Saeed Jaffrey Sakina Jaffrey Madhuri Bhatia |
| Music: | Leslie Winston |
| Cinematography: | Paul Sarossy |
| Editing: | Mike Munn |
| Studio: | Divani Films |
| Runtime: | 106 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Masala is a 1991 Canadian drama film starring, written, and directed by Srinivas Krishna.[1]
Krishna is 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 who is now cleaning up his act after several years living on the streets as a drug addict and criminal.
The film also 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]
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 restored version is slated to screen in the Classics program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]
The film received the Samuelson Award at the Birmingham International Film and Television Festival in 1991,[5] and Saeed Jaffrey received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 12th Genie Awards.[6]