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Directed by Deepa Mehta , who seemed to want to take out all the frustration of the Earth , Fire , Water fracas , the film was mealy mouthed and patronising and dismissed all that went into the making of a mainstream Hindi film as illogical and garish . Amrish Puri played the iniquitous priest and waggled his eyes in the most alarming fashion . Sylvester Stallone would be in India to shoot Rocky IV and Morgan Freeman would be landing in Rishikesh to shoot Moses Tate 's War . As a company employee , Prasad had acted in both the talkies , as Chandaamarkulu and temple priest respectively . He recalled that while the climax sequence was being shot , Padmini worked on her dialogue not even taking a break for lunch . James Albert says that he had approached Lal Jose with a complete script of ` Classmates , ' written according to the sequence of the scenes . So before the credits rolled , there was an action sequence , which was a novelty ... " I have seen Muzaffar Ali who comes from Lucknow sporting it but my reference point was Shashi Kapoor 's headgear in Ivory Merchant 's ` Heat and Dust ' .