| Antarmahal | |
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| Directed by | Rituparno Ghosh |
| Produced by | Anil Kuriakose |
| Starring | Roopa Ganguly Soha Ali Khan Jackie Shroff Abhishek Bachchan |
| Cinematography | Avik Mukhopadhyay |
| Edited by | Arghyakamal Mitra |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Antarmahal is a 2005 IndianBengali film, directed byRituparno Ghosh and produced byAmitabh Bachchan Corporation.[1] The film is based on a Bengali short story namedPratima byTarasankar Bandyopadhyay. Set in the late19th century, the plot revolves around two women who are married to a vainglorious Bengali landlord who exploits them to obtainsocial status.[2] It starsJackie Shroff,Roopa Ganguly,Soha Ali Khan,Abhishek Bachchan,Mrinal Mukherjee, Sumanta Mukherjee andBiswajit Chakraborty.[3][4]
The film received widespread critical acclaim.Screen Daily writes, "Rituparno Ghosh spins another sumptuous, yet intimate family story with Antarmahal: Views From The Inner Chamber, playing once morein the same register he successfully used two years ago for fellow Locarno competitor Chokher Bali."[5]
The story takes place towards the end of the 19th century in Bengal. Bhubaneswar Chowdhury, azamindar of Bakuldanga plans 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 decides to putQueen Victoria's face on the body of the goddessDurga whose clay idol is made every year forDurga Pooja.
On the other hand, he also wants an heir and since he blames the failure on his elder wife Mahamaya (Roopa Ganguly) he marries again, the much younger Jashomati (Soha Ali Khan). Both of these wives compete against each other in an ego struggle. In his pursuit for a son, Bhubaneswar rapes Jashomati every night while a priest reads hymns for conception near the bed, ordering Mahamaya, in a drugged state, to fulfill the carnal desires of five sexually deprived Brahmin priests.
Although she luckily escapes the fate due to the untimely ending, Jashomati, while in her traumatised and lonely state, gets physically drawn towards a young sculptor (Abhishek Bachchan). It's in this centre of all this that the sculptor makes his masterpiece, his tribute, and seals Jashomati's ultimate fate.the script is based on protima a masterpiece of Tarashankar bandopadhyay.
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