Chokher Bali: A Passion Play (2003)
167 min | Drama | 23 Aug 2006
6.9
IMDb Ratings : 6.9/10 (1,201 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes : N/A
Storyline : The book, Binodini, is the story of a young woman, who is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies soon after they are married. She returns to her village and lives there for a …
Director : Rituparno Ghosh
Cast(s) : Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Lily Chakravarty
Language : Bengali
For as it turns out, Rai wasn't a bad choice at all. In a film set in pre-Partition Bengal, she plays Binodini, a young, educated widow who is rejected by friends Mahendra and Behari, played by Prasenjit and Tota Roychowdhury, but comes back into their lives to seduce and spurn them by turns.
Besides her seductive comfort in the way she drapes and carries off the Bengali sari, Rai is endearingly convincing as the widow who speaks her mind.
Despite Ghosh's insightful understanding of the reality of a widow's life, the blase duplicity of Rai's character about her love affair seems out of tune with a conservative Bengal of those days.
Ghosh's Binodini is less conflicted than Tagore's, but is jealous, remorseful and aspires for the blissful domesticity of her friend Asha. While Rai essays most nuances of a complex character well, she probably underestimated the skill of Sen, who has outdone her in some scenes.
Chokher Bali is a 2003 Bengali-language Drama movie written by Rituparno Ghosh and Rabindranath Tagore. The movie is directed by Rituparno Ghosh and produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. The book, Binodini, is the story of a young woman, who is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies soon after they are married.. Chokher bali features Aishwarya Rai in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Raima Sen, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Lily Chakravarty, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Tota Roy Choudhury. The film is based on Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore. The music was composed by Debojyoti Mishra. The film has a running time of 167 minutes. It was released on 2nd October 2003. The Film was successful at box office. Chokher Bali was made on a budget of ₹2 crore and it was a super hit at box office gross of ₹6 crore.
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