A Vidhu Vinod Chopra adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's original classic, a Pradeep Sarkar film. Copyright notice on disc: Excel Home Videos. Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Dia Mirza, Raima Sen, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Rekha, Vidya Balan. Originally released theatrically in 2005. Summary taken from IMDb.com. Special features: scene and song selection.
Summary:
Film is about three neighboring families in a upper middle-class area in Calcutta in 1962. Gurcharan lives in a palatial home (Haveli) with his wife, and two beautiful daughters, Lolita and Koyal ; there is Charu Sharma, who lives with her brother and sister-in-law, who has a wealthy brother, Girish, who lives in Britain. And 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. Shekhar and Lolita are attracted to each other, but Navin 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.
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