Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Amodini

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Jul 2, 2012, 6:13:09 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Amodini'''''''''
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+1994 101’ col Bengali
+d/s/lyr/m Chidananda Das Gupta pc NFDC
+c Madhu Ambat
+lp Piyush Ganguly, Rachana Bannerjee, Ashoke
+Mukherjee, Anusree Das, Tathagata Sanyal,
+Aparna Sen, Kankana Sen, Ashoke Basu,
+Dhiman Chakraborty, Sipra Basu, Devika Mitra
+Noted critic Das Gupta’s comedy is set in the
+18th C. when Calcutta was being built and
+inviolable norms of Brahmin social hierarchy
+often led to absurd situations, e.g. when uppercaste
+brides, who could not marry below their
+class, ended up marrying infants or muchmarried
+males trading on their eligibility. The
+irascible Amodini, daughter of a Kulin Brahmin
+landlord, is forced to marry a servant in her
+house when her scheduled groom abandons
+her in favour of a more lucrative alliance. She
+promptly kicks the servant boy Pundu out of
+her house as soon as the rites are over. The
+servant moves to Calcutta (then Sultanuti) and
+returns years later having made his fortune in
+the British colonial economy, considerably
+wealthier than his former employers. Amodini,
+determined to get him back, unburdens her
+troubles to Pundu’s latest wife and the
+threesome live happily ever after. Unlike the
+later films of Das Gupta’s mentor Satyajit Ray,
+the plot itself becomes secondary to innovative
+camerawork, often using minimal light and
+high-speed stock, and to stylised references to
+popular Bengali artforms.
+
+[[Film]]