''Paromitar Ek Din'' ( ''Paromitar Êkdin'', lit. "One day of Paromita's", English title: ''House of Memories'') is a 2000 Indian

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directed by

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Plot

The film explores the dual themes of friendship and loneliness. The film starts at Sanaka's funeral where Paromita is invited too. Paromita goes into a flashback where it is shown that she was previously married to Sanaka's younger son, Biru. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law duo, Sanaka (

) and Paromita (

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), despite differences in age, backgrounds and temperaments, build a strong bond. But when Paromita's marriage to Biru breaks down, social mores prevent the women from remaining close friends. While Paromita marries Rajeev Shrivastav and begins a new life, her mother-in-law, Sanaka, is left heartbroken and alone and eventually falls seriously ill. When Paromita learns of her friend's deterioration, she is compelled to flout convention, and returns to nurse Sanaka on her deathbed. Sanaka dies, leaving her family shattered. The flashback ends, Paromita leaves the funeral and realizes that she and Rajeev are expecting their first child.

Cast

as Sanaka Sanyal (Debu, Biru and Sanjukta's mother) *

as Paromita Sanyal (Biru's wife) * Sohini Sengupta as Sanjukta (Khuku) *

Soumitra Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee (also spelt as Chattopadhyay; ; 19 January 193515 November 2020) was an Indian film actor, play-director, playwright, writer, thespian and poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the histor ...

as Moni Biswas (Moni-daa or Moni-mama) *

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as Biru Sanyal (Paromita's husband and Sanaka's younger son) *

Rita Koiral Rita Koiral or Rita Kayral (3 July 1959 – 19 November 2017) was an Indian Bengali actress, known for her television and film roles. She appeared in several soap opera roles, often as villains and often opposite Monami Ghosh. Directors she ...

as Sanaka's elder daughter in law (Debu's wife) * Rajesh Sharma as Rajeev Shrivastav (Paromita's second husband) * Dulal Lahiri *

Kaushik Banerjee Kaushik Banerjee is an Indian actor who is known for his work in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He has appeared in more than a 100 films throughout his career of four decades. Born to the ace actor Haradhan Bannerjee, he made his actin ...

as Debu Sanyal (Paromita's husband and Sanaka's older son) *Ratna Sarkar

Awards

The film had won many national and international awards – *2000 – Ecumenical Jury Award at the 35th International Film festival of Karlovy Vary *2000 – Best Film recommendation from the FIPRESCI Jury at 3rd International Film Festival of Mumbai *2000 –

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for Sohini Sengupta *2000 –

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali The National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Ka ...

*2000 –

National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer The National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India since 1968 to a female playback singer for the best renditions of songs from films within the Cinema of India, Indian fi ...

– Jayashree Dasgupta – "Hridoy Amar Prokash Holo..."

External links

* *Chatterjee, Shoma A
Memories of another day
Movie Reviews, ''

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'', 8 February 2000.

References

2000 drama films 2000 films Bengali-language Indian films Films set in Kolkata Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress National Film Award–winning performance Best Bengali Feature Film National Film Award winners 2000s Bengali-language films Films directed by Aparna Sen {{2000s-Bengali-film-stub