Ashok Mukherjee
Parineeta - Ashok Kumar|
1953
Parineeta - Ashok Kumar
1953 | 106 min
Set in the beautiful Kolkata of the sixties, Parineeta follows the love-story of the talented but emotionally high-strung Shekhar and Lalita an orphan with a heart of gold. Shekhar s ambitious and conniving father, Navin Rai is against their match as Lalita has no money and has been raised by a middle-class family. Matters come to a head when Lalita decides to take the young and enterprising businessman, Girish s help to save the fortunes of her adoptive family. But this act of selflessness leads to a crack in her relationship with Shekhar. Based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay s 1914 novella by the same name, Parineeta portrays Bengali culture and the ethos of a bygone era with great perfection.
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2015
Dhuntaaraa
2015 | 92 min
Four children from the city move to a village close by, for a fun-filled vacation and end up finding answers to many of the hitherto unanswered questions that they had always harboured in their anxious young minds. They learn moral values and what life is all about, outside of their regimented school environment and how to handle it like young adults. The story revolves around how they meet an exceptionally talented but poor village boy Deepu and his mentor, an old gentleman fondly referred to by everyone as "Bauji". Their friendship with Deepu turns out to be a learning experience for the city kids and they all also end up solving a dangerous puzzle in the village.
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