Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Unishe Apri

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Jul 3, 2012, 6:27:09 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Unishe Apri

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+'''Unishe April'''
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+1994 138’ col Bengali
+d/s Rituparno Ghosh pc Spandan Films p Renu
+Roy c Sunirmal Majumdar m Jyotishka
+Dasgupta
+lp Aparna Sen, Debashree Roy, Dipankar Dey,
+Prasenjit
+
+
+Ghosh’s second feature, a major success, is an
+Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978) type
+melodrama focussing on the differences
+between a famous mother, the dancer Sarojini
+(Sen), and her daughter Aditi (Roy), a medical
+student in Delhi. The daughter, as was her
+doctor father before her, is unable to handle
+her mother’s sense of independence and fame.
+Most of the film takes place in a single night in
+Calcutta as the daughter tries to commit suicide
+on the anniversary of her father’s death. A
+barrage of dialogue - devoted to showing two
+major Bengali female stars, Sen and Roy,
+locked in a histrionic duel - ends only when
+the two become reconciled, not through any
+resolution of the major issues involved in their
+problems, but by reconfirming the filial bond.
+The film marked a departure from the
+dominant melodramas of the time which were
+geared to addressing, in the industry’s terms,
+‘female and rural’ audiences rather than the
+urban middle class habituated to ‘modernising’
+television drama.
+
+[[Film]]