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Jun 28, 2012, 5:28:21 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Mahaprithibi'''
+
+
+aka World Within, World Without
+1991 105’ col Bengali
+d/sc Mrinal Sen pc G.G. Films st Anjan Dutt
+c Shashi Anand m B.V. Karanth, Chandan Roy
+Choudhury
+lp Victor Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee,
+Anjan Dutt, Aparna Sen, Geeta Sen, Anasuya
+Majumdar
+
+
+With this film Sen returned to his most
+congenial setting, Calcutta, and to one of his
+favourite plot formulas: the sudden
+disappearance of a family member causes the
+others to reflect on themselves and their lives.
+Here Sen considers the lives of a Bengali
+middle-class family against the background of
+‘the new world order’ with the defeat of the
+USSR in the cold war and the unification of
+Germany. When the elderly mother (G. Sen) of
+a Calcutta family hangs herself, her husband (S.
+Chatterjee), her youngest son (Dutta), her
+mentally unbalanced daughter (Majumdar) and
+her widowed daughter-in-law (A.Sen) are
+distraught but do not have the courage to read
+the old woman’s diary. When the eldest son
+(Bannerjee) returns from Germany, his anxious
+questioning brings to light the disorientation
+experienced by the family and the way world
+history penetrates into the fabric of individual
+lives. In the end the daughter, with silent anger
+and resentment, burns the mother’s diary,
+unread.
+
+[[Film]]