Anuranan
Encyclopedia
Anuranan is the directorial debut by Bengali
film-maker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
. The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival of India
.
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.
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.
.
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
film-maker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Aniruddha Roy "Tony" Chowdhury is a Bengali film director. He is the director and producer of two films: Antaheen and Anuranan.-Early life:...
. The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival of India
International Film Festival of India
The International Film Festival of India , founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. Held annually in the beach town of Goa, in the Western Coast of the country, the festival aims at providing a common platform for the cinemas of the world to project the excellence of...
.
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.
Synopsis
Rahul BoseRahul Bose
Rahul Bose is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player.Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English,...
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.
Awards and prizes
- 2008 - 54th (Indian) National Film AwardsNational Film AwardsThe National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it is administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.Every year, a national panel...
, Winner (Best Feature Film in BengaliNational Film Award for Best Feature Film in BengaliThe Indian National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali winners:...
) - 2008 - Santa Cruz Film Festival, Emerging Filmmaker Award (Aniruddha Roy-Choudhury)
Cast
- Rahul BoseRahul BoseRahul Bose is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player.Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English,...
as Rahul - Rituparna SenguptaRituparna SenguptaRituparna Sengupta is an Indian actress. She is the leading actress in Bengali Cinema for the last decade in India, and is also currently performing in critically acclaimed Hindi Cinema.- Early life and education :...
as Nandita - Raima SenRaima Sen-Early life:She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch...
as Preeti - Rajat KapoorRajat KapoorRajat Kapoor is an Indian actor, writer and director born in 1961.Kapoor was born in Delhi, India. As a teenager he would watch films with his family and decided to become a filmmaker at the age of 14. He mainly focused on acting at first...
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 WearPeter WearPeter Wear is a Brisbane-based writer whose columns appear regularly in The Courier-Mail. Wear ran a long-running satire on Queensland politics with the major role played by "President for Life Mbeattie" - a reference to Premier Peter Beattie's longevity in office.Wear also wrote "The Madding of...
as Rahul's boss in London
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. Anuranan is the first Bengali film to be shot in LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Songs
The film features music composed by tabla player Tanmoy Bose.- "Yeh Gagin" - Rituparna Sengupta, Rahul Bose, Rashid KhanRashid KhanUstad Rashid Khan is an Indian classical musician in the Hindustani music tradition. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, and is the great grandson of Gharana founder Ustad Inayat Hussain Khan.He is married to Joyeeta Bose, from the illustrious family of Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose.In a...
, Anushua Chowdhurry - "Bahi Bahikisi" - Rajarshi Chatterjee
- "Mere Pritam" - Kartik Das Baul