Mahaprithibi
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(World Within, World Without)

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Mahaprithibi is the story of a Bengali middle – class family against the background of the new world order with the defeat of the USSR in the cold war and the unification of Germany. When the elderly mother of a Kolkata family hangs herself, her husband, her youngest son, her mentally unbalanced daughter and her widowed daughter – in – law one is distraught but does not have the courage to read the old woman’s diary. When the eldest son returns from Germany, his anxious questioning brings to light the disorientation experienced by the family and the way world history penetrates into the fabric of individual lives. In the end the daughter, with silent anger and resentment, burns the mother’s diary, unread.

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​Language:  Bengali (1991, Colour)
Screenplay & Direction:  Mrinal Sen
​Producer:  Gautam Goswamy
Story:  Anjan Dutta
Camera:  Sashi Anand
Music:  B.V. Karanth & Chandan Roy Chowdhury
Cast:  Soumitra Chatterjee
           Aparna Sen
           Victor Bannerjee
           Gita Sen
           Anjan Dutta
Awards & Nominations:
​          BFJA: Best Supporting Actress (Aparna Sen)
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​Victor Bannerjee and Aparna Sen

Soumitra Chatterjee and Gita Sen

​Gita Sen. In private life she was was married to Mrinal Sen

Victor Bannerjee

Soumitra Chatterjee

Aparna Sen