Aparoopa is an Assamese language

Assamese language

Assamese is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language. It is used mainly in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is also spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language is widely used in...

 film directed by Jahnu Barua

Jahnu Barua

Jahnu Barua is a multiple national and international award-winning Indian film director from Assam. He has directed a number of Assamese and Hindi films, and along with Bhabendra Nath Saikia was one of the pioneers of Assamese Art cinema...

. It is the first feature film of the director and also the first Assamese film produced by National Film Development Corporation of India. It was released in 1982. The film starred Biju Phukan

Biju Phukan

Biju Phukan is a senior Assamese cine-actor of great fame. He was born in Dibrugarh , where he studied in the hallowed "Kanoi College". He acted in more than thirty Assamese movies of the 80s and has contributed a lot towards Assamese cinema. His first movie was Dr...

, Suhasini Mulay

Suhasini Mulay

Suhasini Mulay is an Indian actress in Bollywood and Marathi films as well as television. She won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999, for her performance in Gulzar's film Hu Tu Tu.-Early life and education:...

, Sushil Goswami and Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad

Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...

. This film was also made into Hindi titled Apeksha.

Plot

The story is set in the colonial period in Assam. The film deals with a young woman who has to give up her university education for her arranged marriage with a rich tea-planter. The plantation and its social routine become a prison of boredom for her since her husband completely neglects her for his business. Things get worse when she discovers, outraged, that her marriage was for the sake of wiping off a huge debt owed by her father. She considers herself as having been sold to her husband. Then one day an old classmate, now an army officer, visits them. Depressed, she gets drawn to her ex-lover from whom she seeks fulfillment.

Casts and characters

• Suhasini Mulay
  Suhasini Mulay
  Suhasini Mulay is an Indian actress in Bollywood and Marathi films as well as television. She won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999, for her performance in Gulzar's film Hu Tu Tu.-Early life and education:...
  
   as Aparoopa
• Farooq Sheikh as Rana
• Sushma Seth
  Sushma Seth
  Sushma Seth is an Indian film, television, and stage actress. She started her career in the late 1970s, and has been known for playing the mother and the grandmother in movies and television. She is most known as the role of Dadi in pioneering TV soap Hum Log . She is also a theatre actor and...
  
   as Rana’s mother
• Gopi Desai as Radha
• Biju Phukan
  Biju Phukan
  Biju Phukan is a senior Assamese cine-actor of great fame. He was born in Dibrugarh , where he studied in the hallowed "Kanoi College". He acted in more than thirty Assamese movies of the 80s and has contributed a lot towards Assamese cinema. His first movie was Dr...
  
  
• Sushil Goswami
• Girish Karnad
  Girish Karnad
  Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...
  
  
• Jagdeep
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda
  Kulbhushan Kharbanda
  Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films, and is known as character Shakaal in Shaan inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies...
  
  
• Neelam