Anuranan
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| Directed by | Aniruddha "Tony" Roy-Chowdhury |
| Produced by | Jeet Banerjee, Indrani Mukerjee, Aniruddha Roy-Chowdhury |
| Written by | Aniruddha Roy-Chowdhury Gaurav Pandey |
| Starring | Rahul Bose Rituparna Sengupta Raima Sen Rajat Kapoor |
| Release date(s) | November 2006 1 February 2008 (US)[1] |
| Language | Bengali |
Anuranan (Bengali: অনুরণন) is the directorial debut by Bengali film-maker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival of India.[2]
Anuranan (meaning "resonance" in Bengali) explores the relationships of two married couples. The story explores the impacts and consequences of their relationships. In addition to showing how distinctly different two marriages can be, the title of the movie and subsequently the story convey the fact that people can form relationships that extend beyond just them being acquaintances, and yet remain purely platonic.
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[edit] Synopsis
Rahul Bose plays a creative and sensitive individual, who during the course of his life arrives in a lonely hill station in Sikkim to help build a new holiday resort. The friendship between the two couples, Rahul and Nandita and Amit and Preeti paves the way for a deeper bond between Rahul and Preeti. This "Anuranan" between the two is, towards the end of the movie, misunderstood by society in general including Amit. However, the fact that the love between Rahul and Nandita is pure, does not prevent the latter from falling prey to the rumour mills.Though Nandita seems a bit mismatch in the fast moving America in the first half of the movie,she is being presented as a thoughtful book lover & we get to see her visit bookstores,reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.Interestingly, Rahul picks up the same book at Amit and Preeti's place in the second half of the film set in Kolkata.Preeti reads from Banalata Sen by the poet Jibanananda Das when Rahul visits Amit's home for the first time at his wife's request when Preeti is alone in the house.We also get to see a room full of books scattered all around indicating her being a bibliophile.Characters recites and talks about writers like Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.For both Nandita and Preeti books have become a kind of shelter in an otherwise congenial surrounding.All the four main characters are somewhat lost and lonely.
[edit] Awards and prizes
- 2008 - 54th (Indian) National Film Awards, Winner (Best Feature Film in Bengali)
- 2008 - Santa Cruz Film Festival, Emerging Filmmaker Award (Aniruddha Roy-Choudhury)
[edit] Cast
- Rahul Bose as Rahul
- Rituparna Sengupta as Nandita
- Raima Sen as Preeti
- Rajat Kapoor as Amit
- Haradhan Bandopadhaya as Nandita's Father
- Dolly Basu as Preeti's mother
- Mithu Chakraborthy as Nadita's sister
- Barun Chanda as Mr Guha
- Jacqui Dawson as Roda
- Laura Price as Victoria
- Peter Wear as Rahul's boss in London
[edit] Production
The film was shot on location in India and the UK. Director Aniruddha Roy-Chowdhury describes the scenery of the hill station in the mountains as making the Kanchenjunga "the third character" in the movie.[3] Anuranan is the first Bengali film to be shot in London.
[edit] Songs
The film features music composed by tabla player Tanmoy Bose.
- "Yeh Gagin" - Rituparna Sengupta, Rahul Bose, Rashid Khan, Anushua Chowdhurry
- "Bahi Bahikisi" - Rajarshi Chatterjee
- "Mere Pritam" - Kartik Das Baul
[edit] References
- ^ "New Bengali Film Features Cast of Old Favorites". India West. 1 February 2008. "The highly acclaimed new Bengali film "Anuranan," starring Rahul Bose and Rituparna Sengupta, will open in theaters across the U.S. Feb. 1."
- ^ Raju Nayak (23 November 2006). "Flavour this IFFI: The global Indian film". Indian Express. http://www.indianexpress.com/story_print.php?storyId=17129. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
- ^ "Of feelings, frills and frailties". The Telegraph. 25 October 2005. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051025/asp/calcutta/story_5396902.asp. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
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