Bariwali

Bariwali
বাড়িওয়ালি
Bariwali ; বাড়িওয়ালি
Directed by	Rituparno Ghosh
Produced by	Anupam Kher, Raviranjan Maitra
Starring	Kirron Kher; Chiranjeet; Roopa Ganguly; Sudipta Chakraborty; Abhishek Chatterjee
Cinematography	Vivek Shah
Edited by	Arghyakamal Mitra
Music by	Debojyoti Mishra
Release date	2000
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Bariwali (Bengali: বাড়িওয়ালি, translation: The Landlady, English-language title: The Lady of the House) is a Bengali film released in 2000 directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film features Kirron Kher, Roopa Ganguly and Chiranjeet Chakraborty.

Synopsis[]

The film is a quiet drama about a lonely, sad, unfortunate middle-aged woman. Banalata (Kiron Kher) has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production unit to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate. Suddenly her house is filled with movie stars and glamorous people, including the beautiful actress Sudeshna (Roopa Ganguly) and charming director Deepankar (Chiranjeet Chakraborty). Though she knows that not only is Deepankar married but that his former lover Sudeshna still holds a torch for him, the lonely woman finds herself drawn to the director. He is exactly the sort of worldly character whom she has always longed to meet. The rakish man flirts back and even persuades Banalata to appear in a bit part in the movie. Yet once the film crew decamps, things at the estate return to the same grinding tedium as before, though the woman feels her isolation all the more acutely. The letters that Banalata writes to Deepankar go unanswered, and her bit part in the movie ends up on the cutting-room floor.^[2]

Controversy[]

Rita Koiral, an Indian actress in the Bengali language, in a 2017 TV show, claimed, she was asked to withhold to the media, the fact that she had dubbed the voice of actress Kirron Kher. Her contribution was not declared in the national awards nominations for the movie.^[3]

Cast[]

Kirron Kher as Banalata, voice dubbed by Rita Koiral^[4]
Chiranjeet Chakraborty as Deepanakar, voice dubbed by Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
Roopa Ganguly as Sudeshna Mitra
Sudipta Chakraborty as Malati
as Prasanna
Abhishek Chatterjee as Abhijeet
Shiboprosad Mukherjee as Debashish

Awards[]

National Film Award for Best Actress for Kirron Kher
Netpac Award for Rituparno Ghosh (tied with Yuji Nakae for Nabbie's Love)

References[]

^ "The Lady of the House (2000) - IMDb".
^ "Movies | Movie Times | Tickets | Movies Now Playing | Moviefone.com". Movies.aol.com. 20 January 1964. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
^ "When Anupam Kher threatened to ruin the career of an actor". nationalheraldindia.com. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
^ Rajadhyaksha, Radha (10 April 2016). "Recognising 'behind the voice actors'". The Hindu. thehindu.com. Retrieved 18 June 2020.

External links[]

[1] "The Lady of the House (2000) - IMDb".

[2] "Movies | Movie Times | Tickets | Movies Now Playing | Moviefone.com". Movies.aol.com. 20 January 1964. Retrieved 8 July 2012.

[3] "When Anupam Kher threatened to ruin the career of an actor". nationalheraldindia.com. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2020.

[4] Rajadhyaksha, Radha (10 April 2016). "Recognising 'behind the voice actors'". The Hindu. thehindu.com. Retrieved 18 June 2020.

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