Utsab

India

2000

120 Min

Bengali

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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DIR Rituparno Ghosh

CAST Madhabi Mukherjee, Pradip Mukhopadhyay, Bodhisattva Mazumdar, Alaknanda Roy

Synopsis

Family tension runs high when four grown siblings reunite at their elderly mother’s home. When matriarch Bhagabati (Madhabi Mukherjee) reveals that she might sell off the estate, the announcement stirs up painful memories and uncovers a long-buried secret. Sibling rivalry, failing marriages, addiction and greed come in to play when Bhagabati’s family gathers together under one roof for the celebration of Durga Puja.

Director

Rituparno Ghosh

Rituparno Ghosh (Bangla: ঋতুপর্ণ ঘোষ Ritupôrno Ghosh) is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.

He began directing in advertising. In 1992, he made a low-key film debut with a children’s feature titled Hirer Angti (The Diamond Ring). His second movie Unishe April (19 April), won the 1995 National Film Award. Since then, Ghosh has directed Dahan, Utsab, Chokher Bali, Asukh, Bariwali, Antarmahal and Raincoat (in Hindi). In 2010 he won the National Award for Best Director for his Bengali film Abohoman starring Jishu Sengupta, Ananya Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey and Mamata Shankar. —Wikipedia