Antarmahal
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| Directed by | Rituparno Ghosh |
| Starring | Jackie Shroff Abhishek Bachchan Soha Ali Khan |
| Release date(s) | 2005 |
| Language | Bengali |
Antar Mahal (Bengali: অন্তরমহল ôntormohol) is a 2005 Bengali cinema directed by Rituparno Ghosh. Jackie Shroff plays the zamindar. Other lead roles include Rupa Ganguly and Soha Ali Khan. Abhishek Bachchan plays a supporting role in this Bengali film.
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The story takes place towards the end of the 19th century in Bengal. Bhubaneswar Chowdhury (Jackie Shroff) is a rich and oppressive Zamindar(Landlord). He is planning to please the British so that they bestow on him the Raibahadur title. There are quite a few contenders and so something unique has to be done, so he decide's to put Queen Victoria's face on the body of the Goddess Durga who's murti is made every year for Durga Pooja On the other hand he also wants an heir and since he blames the failure on wife Mahamaya (Rupa Ganguly) he marries again, the much younger Jashomati (Soha Ali Khan). Both the wives compete against each other in an ego struggle. IN his pursuit for a son, Bhubaneswar tries everythign from trying to force himself on Jashomati while a preist reads hymns for conception near the bed, to sending Mahamaya, in a drugged state, to fulfill the carnal desires of five sexually deprived brahmin priests, who's excuse to sleep with her is a distorted version of the rites of the Ashwamedha yagna. The Younger wife Jashomati in her traumatised and lonely state gets physically drawn towards young sculptor played by (Abhishek Bachchan) . It's in this centre of all this that the sculpor makes his masterpeice, his tribute, and seals Jashmoati's ultimate fate. [1].
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