Abohomaan

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Abohomaan
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRituparno Ghosh
Written byRituparno Ghosh
Produced byMahesh Ramanathan, Big Pictures, Jay Dev Banerjee
StarringDipankar De
Jisshu Sengupta
Mamata Shankar
Riya Sen
Ananya Chatterjee
CinematographyAvik Mukhopadhyay
Edited byArghyakamal Mitra
Music by21 Grams
Distributed byReliance BIG Pictures
Release date
  • 22 January 2010 (2010-1-22)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Abohomaan (English: The Eternal) is a 2010 Bengali-language

Best Actress respectively.[2] The film was screened in the Marché du Film section of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

Earlier, Rituparno Ghosh had planned to make the film in Hindi as Kya Haseen Sitam, with Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Vidya Balan, later decided to make it in Bengali, as Abahoman.[4]

Plot

Aniket (

Deepankar De) is one of the finest filmmakers of Bengal, Deepti (Mamata Shankar) is an actress, with whom he had fallen in love while casting in one of his films, who had sacrificed her career for love and marriage. Apratim (Jisshu Sengupta
) is their only son. They had been a perfect family.

The plot thickens when Aniket auditions a young actress, Shikha (

Muse
for Aniket. Her acting skills and her spontaneity mesmerized him. To him, she was Sreemoti, the name which he had first given to Deepti. Deepti later gave this name to Shikha. Even when Sikha became popular in the acting world by the name Sreemoti, Aniket always referred to her as Sikha. For him, Deepti - his wife was the real Sreemoti. This is revealed towards the end of the movie, when a dying Aniket desires to see Sreemoti, because he has to take a shot, and Deepti comes in front of him. This leaves a lot to be explained but the storyline suggests that Aniket was in love with Sreemoti, more than Deepti or Shikha.

The storyline connects the relationship between Aniket and Shikha to that between the noted theater director (Girish Chandra Ghosh) and the noted actress (Binodini Dasi). Later on when Apratim lies to his wife the same way as his father lied to his wife while spending time with Shikha, it is suggested that this relationship is "Abohomaan" meaning carried over.

Cast

Awards

The film has won the following awards since its release:

National Film Awards (India)

References

  1. ^ "Rituparno Ghosh's Abohomaan to release Jan 22". India Today. PTI. 5 January 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Rituparno happy, but not celebrating 'Abohoman' success". Bollywood.com. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  3. ^ Premankur Biswas (1 May 2009). "Cannes Bound". The Indian Express. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Rituparno Ghosh does his own take on 'Kaagaz Ke Phool'". DNA. Essel Group. 28 April 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2018.