Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Paroma Parama

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Jul 17, 2012, 6:20:31 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Paroma Parama

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+'''Paroma/Parama'''
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+1985 134’[B]/138’[H] col Bengali/Hindi
+d/s Aparna Sen pc Usha Ents lyr Gulzar
+c Ashok Mehta m Bhaskar Chandavarkar
+lp Raakhee, Sandhya Rani Chatterjee, Aparna
+Sen, Mukul Sharma, Dipankar De, Anil
+Chatterjee, Bharati Devi, Chitti Ghosal, Manas
+Mukherjee Jr, Arjun Guha-Thakurta
+
+
+Sen followed up her directorial debut, 36
+Chowringhee Lane (1981) with this story
+about a 40-year-old married woman, Parama
+(Raakhee) who falls in love with Rahul
+(Sharma), an expatriate photo-journalist
+working for glossy magazines who
+photographs her making her look glamorous.
+Their affair, and the invasion of the glamour
+machine into her life, becomes a problem
+when some of the photographs, earlier
+admired by the family, are published in a
+journal. Parama is rejected by her husband and
+has a mental breakdown. In the end, a doctor
+suggests prescribing psychiatric treatment and
+when Parama adamantly refuses any sense of
+guilt, her young daughter comes and gives her
+mother moral support. The film is notable
+mainly for its emancipatory thrust, undermined
+by a class-inflected sense of nostalgia for
+‘belonging’, rather than for its cinematic
+qualities which are akin to the kitschy style of
+glossy consumer magazines. The Bengali
+version, shown in Calcutta amid much
+controversy, was successful; the Hindi version
+received a fitful release.
+
+[[Film]]