Abohomaan

Abohomaan
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRituparno Ghosh
Written byRituparno Ghosh
Produced byMahesh Ramanathan, Big Pictures, Jay Dev Banerjee
StarringDipankar De
Jisshu Sengupta
Mamata Shankar
Riya Sen
Ananya Chatterjee
CinematographyAvik Mukhopadhyay
Edited byArghyakamal Mitra
Music by21 Grams
Distributed byReliance BIG Pictures
Release date
  • 22 January 2010 (2010-01-22)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Abohomaan (English: The Eternal) is a 2010 Bengali-language film by Rituparno Ghosh, which explores the nuances of relationships through a married film director who falls in love with an actress who is the same age as his son.[1] The film stars Deepankar De, Mamata Shankar, Ananya Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Riya Sen and is produced by Mahesh Ramanathan, Reliance Big Pictures. Rituparno Ghosh, Arghyakamal Mitra, Mahesh Ramanathan and Ananya Chatterjee won National Film Awards in 2010 for Best Director, Best Editor Best Bengali Film and Best Actress respectively.[2] The film was screened in the Marché du Film section of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

Earlier, Rituparno Ghosh had planned to make the film in Hindi as Kya Haseen Sitam, with Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Vidya Balan, later decided to make it in Bengali, as Abahoman.[4]

  1. ^ "Rituparno Ghosh's Abohomaan to release Jan 22". India Today. PTI. 5 January 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Rituparno happy, but not celebrating 'Abohoman' success". Bollywood.com. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  3. ^ Premankur Biswas (1 May 2009). "Cannes Bound". The Indian Express. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Rituparno Ghosh does his own take on 'Kaagaz Ke Phool'". DNA. Essel Group. 28 April 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2018.