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15 PARK AVENUE
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Aparna Sen
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This is a story of two sisters, Anjali and Mitali, affectionately called Anu and Meethi. Meethi, born from her mother's second marriage, 18 years after Anu, suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy. In spite of her health problems and her family's resistance, she gets engaged to Joydeep. Meethi, who works for a publishing house as a journalist, goes by herself on an assignment outside Calcutta where she is repeatedly raped. Following this incident Meethi's health conditions get worse and Joydeep, unable to relate to Meethi any longer, breaks off the engagement. Meethi becomes seriously depressive and has to be put away in a home for the mentally ill. Later she is brought back home but she isn't the same anymore. She now lives in a completely delusional world: she believes that she is married to Joydeep, has five children and her house is at 15 Park Avenue. But there's no Park Avenue on the map of Calcutta.
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Screenplay Aparna Sen
Photography (colour) Hemant Chaturvedi
Editing Rabi Ranjan Moitra
ICast Waheeda Reheman, Shabana Azmi, Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kanwaljit Singh
Production Bipin Vohra (SPS Films)
Year of production 2005
Running time 116'
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Aparna Sen
Aparna Sen is one of India's most celebrated directors. She made her debut as an actress in 1961 in Satyajit Ray's Two Daughters. She has since acted in the films of several noted film directors. She wrote and directed her first film, 36 Chowringhee Lane, in 1981. Among the other films she directed we recall: Parama (1985), Sati (1990), Yugant (What the Sea Said, 1995), Paromitar ek din (House of Memories, 1999), Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002). Her films have been awarded a great number of prizes at domestic and international festivals, between which the audience award of Asiaticafilmediale for Mr. and Mrs. Iyer). Retrospectives of her films have been held in London, Munich, Kolkata. The President of India honoured her with the prestigious Padmashree Award in 1986 in recognition of her contribution to cinema.
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