Parineeta (2005)

Actors: Vidhu Vinod Chopra (producer), Vidhu Vinod Chopra (writer), Diya Mirza (actress), Rekha (actress), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Saratchandra Chatterjee (writer), Gita Dey (actress), Sanjay Dutt (actor), Achyut Potdar (actor), Saif Ali Khan (actor), Haradhan Bannerjee (actor), Biplab Chatterjee (actor), Raima Sen (actress), Rahul Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Rajesh Sharma (actor),

Plot: Circa 1962 in Calcutta, India, live three neighboring families in a upper middle-class area. Gurcharan lives in a palatial home (Haveli) with his wife, and two beautiful daughters, Lolita and Koyal. He is retired,unable to find suitable work and must live off of his savings, ends up mortgaging his house with his neighbor, Navinchandra Roy, and hopes to get his daughters married within his means; there is Charu Sharma, who lives with her brother and sister-in-law, who has a wealthy brother, Girish, who lives in Britain. And finally there are the Roys - Navinchandra, a hard-nosed businessman, who will never undertake anything unless there is a high level of profit for him, his son, Shekhar, who he hopes to groom after himself, and his quiet, devout wife. Navin realizes Gurcharan's plight and offers Lolita a job at his office in order to enable the family to survive. Shekhar and Lolita are attracted to each other, but Navin does not approve of this, as he wants Shekhar to get married to Gayetri Tatya, the daughter of his wealthy business associate. Then chaos descends on these families when Girish returns home, is attracted to Lolita and would like to marry her; Lolita finds out that Navin is bent on recovering his loan by evicting her family to a filthy go-down until they can find other means, and intends to build a five star hotel. Lolita must now act quickly to get her father to return the loan amount to Navin. But how will Gurcharan get 1.50 lakhs in so short a time? It does look like his family is destined to be evicted and face a life of destitution.

Keywords: 1960s, based-on-novel, brick-wall, calcutta-india, childhood-love, critically-acclaimed, india, love, modernized-version, remake
Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance,

Quotes:

Shekhar Rai: Quite a weak business man you are, Dad. Entered into such a loss inducing bargain.::Nabin Roy: [shocked] What?! How much did the bargain settle for?::Shekhar Rai: For free! And still you paid such a heavy price. Becasue you gained the land, yes. But you lost your son in the process.::Nabin Roy: Have you lost your mind! In a few minutes Mr. Lala will be here and-::Shekhar Rai: First will you aks Mr. Lala whether he is willing to give his daughter to a married man?!::Nabin Roy: [Mother and father are both shocked] What!::Shekhar Rai: That's right! I'm already married!::Nabin Roy: To whom?!::Shekhar Rai: Lolita::Rajeshwari: [overjoyed] Really son? When did this happen??::Nabin Roy: Stop it! i don't believe this garbage! Just hand a few bucks to that girl and send her packing from --::Shekhar Rai: [turns around, enraged] Enough, Dad!!! You're talking about my wife and she is not for sale! Everything you say starts and ends with money, doesn't it, Dad?! And the sad thing is that you've turned me into a clone of you! Money, position, fame, I couldn't see past it! And worst of all, because of you I slapped Lolita! I raised a hand on my own wife! [slams his hand down hard on the desk]