Habitat Film Club presents Remembering Rituparno - film screenings at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 1st, 2nd, 4th & 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th & 17th July 2013

Time : 7:00 pm

Entry : Habitat Film Club membership required, click here for more details
Note : Call  91-11-43663333 (Habitat World) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.

Place : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
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Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : Habitat Film Club presents Remembering Rituparno - film screenings are as follows : 
1st July : Unishe April (19th April) (Bengali/1994/138mins) 
Cast: Aparna Sen, Debashree Roy & Dipankar Dey. 
Medical student Aditi, returns to visit her mother in Calcutta. She has spent most of her childhood at a boarding school and doesn't know much about her parents, particularly her father who died when she was young. Her mother Sarojini, a noted dancer is preparing to receive an important prize. The girl is still obsessed with the loss of her father and as his death anniversary approaches, she becomes increasingly despondent; something her mother fails to notice being caught up in the brouhaha surrounding the award. Winner of the Golden Lotus Award at the National Film Award 1995 for Best Feature Film & Silver Lotus Award for Best Actress. 
2nd July : Ashukh (Malaise) (Bengali/1994/138mins)  
Cast:  Soumitra Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Arpita Pal. 
Rohini, a popular actress but an emotionally vulnerable lady addicted to sleeping pills, in trying to cope with her mother’s illness, ends up triggering a subtle schism with her father.  A  brilliant character study, Ghosh captures the nuances of Rohini’s relationships and her internal turmoil through exceptional use of Tagore’s poems. Winner of the  FIPRESCI Prize at the Bombay International Film Festival, 1999  
4th July : Shubho Muhurat (Bengali/2003/150mins)  
Cast:  Sharmila Tagore, Raakhee,  Nandita Das.  
Based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple story The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. After twenty years living abroad, Padmini Choudhury, an actress-turned-producer, returns to India to make a film with her director husband Sambit Roy. Journalist Mallika Sen reports on the first day filming celebration, and accompanies actress Kakoli home to conduct an interview. Arriving home, Kakoli becomes violently ill and passes away. The police discover that Kakoli was poisoned earlier that day, and everyone from the "Shubho Mahurat" celebration becomes a suspect. Winner of the Best Supporting Actress & Best Feature Film in Bengali at the National Film Award, 2003
5th July : Chokher Bali- A Passion Play (Sand In The Eye)  (Bengali/2003/167mins)  
Cast:  Aishwarya Rai, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Raima Sen. 
A newly-married couple, Mahendra and Ashalata, are passionately in love until this love is temporarily tarnished by the arrival into their extended family of a young, intelligent, and educated widow, Binodini. 
8th July : Shob Charitro Kalponik (All Characters Are Imaginary)  (Bengali/2009/98mins)  
Cast: Prasenjit, Bipasha Basu, Paoli Dam, Jisshu Sengupta. 
Indraneel's sudden death averts a possible divorce, and takes Radhika on a fantastic inward journey of discovery of her own roots through the language of poetry, and lost love. A publisher asks Radhika to complete Indraneel's works. This compels her to study his work, and thus begins her journey into the past. She realizes how much he romanticized their mundane, everyday life. Yet in reality, he was often insensitive, negligent and apathetic towards her. She wonders about his dual identity. How can a poet be unaware of his day-to-day realities, yet highlight moments from it in his art? Is art essentially an artifice? 
9th July : Abohomaan (The Eternal) (Bengali/2010/122mins)  
Cast: Dipankar Dey, Jishu Sengupta, Riya Sen, Ananya Chatterjee
Abohoman tells the story of Aniket, one of the finest filmmakers of Bengal in eastern India and the loves of his life. Devoted to his craft, Aniket met and fell in love with his wife Deepti, an actress, while they worked together on the set of a film. They were so in love that Deepti sacrificed her own career for her husband's and for their son Apratim, but lost a little of who she was in the process. The plot thickens when Aniket auditions a young actress, Shikha, who bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger. Winner of Best Feature Film in Bengali, Golden Lotus Award for Best Director, Silver Lotus Awards for Best Actress & Best Editing at the National Film Award, 2010  Collab: Directorate of Film Festivals & Calcutta
10th July : Memories In March (Eng/Hindi/2010/104mins)  
Cast: Deepti Naval,  Rituparno Ghosh,  Raima Sen.  
The film is the effective exploration of a situation wherein a bereaved mother comes to terms 
with the fact of her son’s sexual identity. Winner of Best Feature Film in English at the 58th National Film Awards 
17th July : Chitrangada  (Bengali/Eng/2012/135mins)  
Cast: Kaushik Banerjee, Dipankar Dey, Anjan Dutt.  
The film is based on the story of Chitrāngadā from the Mahābhārata. It tells the story of a choreographer who is struggling with his gender identity. Winner of the Special Jury Award at the 60th National Film Awards. 

Collaboration : Directorate of Film Festivals & Calcutta Presidency College Alumni Association

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