INTRODUCTION:
Directed by debutant Pradeep Sarkar,the film was based upon a screenplay by the film’s producer, Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The movie featured Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan and Sanjay Dutt in the lead roles.
The film primarily revolves around the lead characters, Lalita and Shekhar. Since childhood, Shekhar and Lalita have been friends and slowly this friendship blossoms into love. A series of misunderstandings surface and both of them are separated with the conniving schemes of Shekhar’s father. The plot deepens with the arrival of Girish who supports Lalita’s family. Eventually, Shekhar’s love defies his father’s greed and he seeks Lalita.
PLOT:
Circa 1962 in Calcutta, India, live three neighboring families in a upper middle-class area. Gurcharan lives in a palatial home (Haveli) with his wife, and two beautiful daughters, Lolita and Koyal. He is retired,unable to find suitable work and must live off of his savings, ends up mortgaging his house with his neighbor, Navinchandra Roy, and hopes to get his daughters married within his means; there is Charu Sharma, who lives with her brother and sister-in-law, who has a wealthy brother, Girish, who lives in Britain. And finally there are the Roys – Navinchandra, a hard-nosed businessman, who will never undertake anything unless there is a high level of profit for him, his son, Shekhar, who he hopes to groom after himself, and his quiet, devout wife. Navin realizes Gurcharan’s plight and offers Lolita a job at his office in order to enable the family to survive. Shekhar and Lolita are attracted to each other, but Navin does not approve of this, as he wants Shekhar to get married to Gayetri Tatya, the daughter of his wealthy business associate. Then chaos descends on these families when Girish returns home, is attracted to Lolita and would like to marry her; Lolita finds out that Navin is bent on recovering his loan by evicting her family to a filthy go-down until they can find other means, and intends to build a five star hotel. Lolita must now act quickly to get her father to return the loan amount to Navin. But how will Gurcharan get 1.50 lakhs in so short a time? It does look like his family is destined to be evicted and face a life of destitution.
CAST:
Saif Ali Khan …..Shekhar Rai
Sanjay Dutt……Girish
Vidya Balan…….Lalita
Diya Mirza…..Gayatri
Raima Sen……Koel
Sabyasachi Chakraborty……Navin Rai.
BOX OFFICE AND RATINGS:
Released with a “U” (Universal: Suitable for all ages) certification by the Central Board of Film Certification of India,, Parineeta notched up Rs. 206 million in India at the end of 2005. Its overseas success was notable as well with gross collections of Rs. 36 million in the United Kingdom, Rs. 35 million in North America, and Rs 15 million in the rest of the overseas.
AWARDS:
Apart from winning the National Award for the Best First Film Director, Parineeta won five Filmfare Awards.
Best Art Direction to Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar and Pradeep Sarkar
Best Choreography to Howard Rosemayer
Best Debut to Vidya Balan
RD Burman Award to Shantanu Moitra
Best Sound Recording to Bishwadeep Chatterjee
It was also nominated for an additional nine awards which ranged from the categories for Best Film, Best Director, three for actors portraying Lalita, Shekhar and Girish to four nominations for the soundtrack.
The film also won a prominent awards in the form of two Star Screen Awards, three Zee Cine Awards among a notable awards.
Apart from these, the film was nominated for an eclectic mix of awards.
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