Ek Din Pratidin
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 Ek Din Pratidin DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Mrinal Sen |
| Written by | Mrinal Sen (writer) Amalendu Chakraborty (novel) |
| Starring | Mamata Shankar Gita Sen Sreela Majumdar Satya Bandhyopadhyay |
| Cinematography | K. K. Mahajan |
| Edited by | Gangadhar Naskar |
| Music by | B.V. Karanth |
Production company | Mrinal Sen Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Ek Din Pratidin (Bengali: এক দিন প্রতিদিন, lit: "One Day, Every Day," English title: "And Quiet Rolls the Dawn") is a 1979 Bengali drama film directed by Mrinal Sen, who also wrote the screenplay based on an Amalendu Chakraborty novel. Set in contemporary India, the film follows the trauma experienced by a family when the breadwinning daughter fails to return from work.
The film stars Mamata Shankar, Gita Sen and Sreela Majumdar, among others. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali and the National Film Award for Best Direction.[1] It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Plot
[edit]A middle-class family of seven members, with father (Satya Bandhyopadhyay), mother (Gita Sen), three sisters and two brothers, are economically dependent on the earnings of the sole breadwinner of the family, the oldest daughter Chinu (Mamata Shankar). One evening Chinu fails to return from work at the office. In the span of one evening and one night, her family worries, makes searches and evolves into a crisis. The crisis leads to mutual recriminations until finally the daughter returns.
Cast
[edit]- Gita Sen as the mother
- Satya Bandhyopadhyay as the father
- Mamata Shankar as Chinu the oldest daughter
- Sreela Majumdar as Minu, the second oldest daughter
- Kaushik Sen
- Nalini Banerjee
- Arun Mukherjee
- Umanath Bhattacharya
- Biplab Chatterjee
Awards
[edit]- National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
- National Film Award for Best Direction
- National Film Award for Best Editing-Gangadhar Naskar
References
[edit]- ^ "National Awards 1979 Winners". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Ek Din Pratidin". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
External links
[edit]- Ek Din Pratidin at IMDb
- A review Archived 24 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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