Parineeta (2005 film)
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| Directed by | Pradeep Sarkar |
| Produced by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra Rajkumar Hirani (creative producer) |
| Written by | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (novella), Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Pradeep Sarkar, Rekha Nigam |
| Starring | Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan Raima Sen Dia Mirza Rekha Amitabh Bachchan |
| Music by | Shantanu Moitra |
| Distributed by | Vinod Chopra Productions |
| Release date(s) | 2005 |
| Language | Hindi |
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Parineeta (Hindi: परिणीता, Urdu: پرنیتا, translation: The Married Woman) is a Bollywood musical adaptation of the 1914 Bengali novella, Parineeta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Directed by debutant Pradeep Sarkar, based upon a screenplay by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the movie featured Saif Ali Khan as Shekhar, Sanjay Dutt as Girish, Vidya Balan as Lalita, and Amitabh Bachchan as the narrator.
This movie was well received all over India and abroad [1].
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[edit] Plot
This film adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1914 novella, Parineeta, places the story in Kolkata of 1962. This adaptation (which deviates slightly from the original storyline of the novella [2]) centers around a young woman, Lolita (Vidya Balan), who was orphaned as a child. She lives with the family of her uncle, Gurucharan (Achyut Potdar). Gurucharan has a daughter, Koel (Raima Sen), who is very close to Lolita. When Gurucharan had a heart attack three years prior, he had to borrow a large sum of money from his neighbor, Navin Rai (Sabyasachi Chakravarthy). Rai demands that Gurucharan return the loan or else he will lose his home to Rai (a situation which creates the central tension of the film). Rai's son, Shekhar (Saif Ali Khan) is rebellious and musically inclined, spending his days playing the music of Rabindranath Tagore or Elvis Presley and composing his own songs with Lolita, rather than becoming part of his father's world. Part of this rebellion involves resistance to meeting Gayatri Tantia (Dia Mirza), the beautiful but devious daughter of a wealthy family whom his father would like Shekhar to marry into. Instead, Shekhar is in love with Lolita, and she with him, though neither of them admit it.
Meanwhile, Lolita meets a relative by marriage, Charu's (Smita Malhotra) brother, Girish (Sanjay Dutt), who is visiting from London. Girish falls in love with Lolita as well. The resulting love triangle, and Navin Rai's deviousness, forms the climax of the film.
[edit] 2005 Awards
[edit] Filmfare awards
Parineeta won five Filmfare Awards. It was also nominated for an additional nine awards:
Winners:
- Best Art Direction - Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar and Pradeep Sarkar
- Best Choreography - Howard Rosemayer
- Best Debut - Vidya Balan
- RD Burman Award - Shantanu Moitra
- Best Sound Recording - Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Nominated:
- Best Movie - Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Vinod Chopra Productions
- Best Director - Pradeep Sarkar
- Best Actor - Saif Ali Khan
- Best Actress - Vidya Balan
- Best Supporting Actor - Sanjay Dutt
- Best Music Director - Shantanu Moitra
- Best Lyricist - Swanand Kirkire for "Piyu Bole"
- Best Male Playback - Sonu Nigam for "Piyu Bole"
- Best Female Playback - Sunidhi Chauhan for "Kaisi Paheli Zindgani"
[edit] Star Screen awards
Parineeta won two Star Screen Awards.
- Star Screen Award Most Promising Newcomer - Female - Vidya Balan
- Star Screen Award Best Female Playback - Shreya Goshal
[edit] Zee Cine Awards
Parineeta won three Zee Cine Awards.
- Zee Cine Award for Most Promising Director - Pradeep Sarkar
- Zee Cine Award Best Female Debut - Vidya Balan
- Zee Cine Award Best Playback Singer- Female - Shreya Goshal for Piyu Bole
[edit] Additional awards
- International Indian Film Academy Awards - Best Female Debut - Vidya Balan
[edit] CD soundtrack listing
The soundtrack to Parineeta was released in April 2005 to positive reviews [3].
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| Producer(s) | Vinod Chopra Productions | |
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| Parineeta | Eklavya: The Royal Guard (2006) |
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| # | Title | Singer | Time | Other notes |
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| 1 | Piyu Bole | Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal | 4:21 | |
| 2 | Kasto Mazza | Sonu Nigam,Shreya Ghoshal | 4:43 | |
| 3 | Soona Man Ka Aangan | Sonu Nigam,Shreya Ghoshal | 4:20 | |
| 4 | Kaisi Paheli Zindgani | Sunidhi Chauhan | 4:03 | |
| 5 | Raat Hamari Toh | Chitra, Swanand | 5:19 | |
| 6 | Dhinak Dhinak Dha | Rita Ganguly | 3:53 | |
| 7 | Hui Main Parineeta | Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal | 2:32 |
[edit] DVD
The DVD of Parineeta was released in September 2005. It has subtitle options in English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Italian, Malay, and French. An additional disc includes interviews with the actors and a behind the scenes look at the making of the film [4], [5].
[edit] Cultural allusions
Cinematic works by Vidhu Vinod Chopra (such as Lage Raho Munna Bhai) often contain allusions to other important films and works of literature. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, the author of Parineeta, was a contemporary of Rabindranath Tagore; both authors documented Bengali life and social issues at the turn of the century. The 2005 cinematic version of Parineeta pays homage to this relationship by referencing Satyajit Ray's film Charulata, which itself is based upon Tagore's noted novella, Nashtanir. Parineeta 's Lalita is dressed to resemble Nashtanir/Charulata 's Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee), particularly during the song "Soona Man Ka Aangan", which incorporates Tagore's song "Fule Fule Dhole Dhole." In both Parineeta and Charulata, "Fule Fule Dhole Dhole" is sung while Lalita and Charu are each on a swing [6], [7]. The film continues the above connection by placing Saif Ali Khan on the same train used in the film Aradhana which featured his mother, Sharmila Tagore (a relative of Rabindranath Tagore and a favorite actress of Satyajit Ray) [8].
[edit] See also
- Parineeta (book)
[edit] References
- ^ http://planetbollywood.com/Film/Parineeta/
- ^ http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2215/stories/20050729001908300.htm
- ^ http://www.planetbollywood.com/Music/Parineeta/
- ^ http://store.nehaflix.com/pasdudvd.html
- ^ http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/review.asp?ID=356
- ^ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050611/asp/nation/story_4854277.asp
- ^ http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/08/07/stories/2005080700510500.htm
- ^ http://in.rediff.com/movies/2004/dec/23saif.htm
[edit] External links
- Parineeta at Rotten Tomatoes
- Review - BBC
- Special Site
- A maverick, period! As "Parineeta" opens this Friday, Vidhu Vinod Chopra speaks about the making of the film based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic
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