Antareen screened at Ekagra festival

On the second day of the film festival Ekagra, a Bengali movie Antareen was screened.Here on Thursday, the Bengali movie by Mrinal Sen ‘Antareen’ was screened at Abhirang Auditorium. The movie Antareen meaning ‘Endless Wait’ is one of the masterpieces by Mrinal Sen.Antareen means The Confined is a 1993 Indian film in Bengali language, directed by Mrinal Sen, based on a story by Saadat Hasan Manto. It stars Anjan Dutt and Dimple Kapadia.At the 1993 National Film Award, it was awarded the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.

The movie is about an untold and a relationship that happened in disguise. It is about two strangers how their paths come across and then they decided to meet forms the story. The story follows the life of the young writer (Anjan Dutta) seeking inspiration is living alone an old mansion of friend in Calcutta, one night he starts talking to an anonymous stranger (Dimple Kapadia) over phone, the conversation soon develop into a relationship as details of their lives are revealed. Then they decide to meet on a train.

The movie was well received by the theatre buffs of the city. Mostly, the artists and art lovers were noticed at the hall. Interestingly, Antareen was the first non-Hindi project Kapadia took part in since Vikram (1986). She played a woman caught in a loveless marriage. Insisting on playing her part spontaneously, Kapadia refused to enroll in a crash-course in Bengali as she wrongly felt that she would be able to speak it convincingly. Her voice was dubbed by actor Anushua Chatterjee.