Nishijapon

Nishijapon
Directed by	Sandip Ray
Produced by	R.D. Bansal
Written by	Narayan Gangopadhyay
Starring	Sabyasachi Chakraborty Parambrata Chatterjee
Music by	Sandip Ray
Cinematography	Barun Raha
Release date(s)	2005
Running time	100 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Nishijapon (Bengali: নিশিযাপন) (2005) is a Bengali film directed by Sandip Ray.

Synopsis

Bimal (Soumitra Chatterjee) is visited by his family and his friend in his Darjeeling house. Anita, his elder son Nirmal's wife, takes good care of them, spending most of her time in the kitchen. Brojen, the managing director of a tea estate and Bimal's friend, irritates everyone, especially Nirmal (Sabyasachi Chakraborty), with his stories of his guru's miracles and his over enthusiasm for food. Anita also keeps on trying to convince Shyamol, her brother-in-law and Sunita (Raima Sen), to see each other. Shyamol and Sunita grow to like each other and Anita enthusiastically declares the alliance to Bimal. Meanwhile, torrential rain makes it impossible for Ram, the servant, to get much food from the nearly closed market. That night the rain stops. Suddenly, all the inmates of the house are jolted out of their sleeps by a terrible earthquake. Power is cut off and most of the things inside the house is broken. Nirmal goes out to discover that Ram's house and orchard has been destroyed in a landslide. The next morning they discovered that the wooden bridge which connected them to the world was lying broken. Soon, there is serious shortage of food. Tempers flare as Nirmal and Brojen (Dipankar Dey) have a wild argument. Nirmal tries to climb down the mountain to get help, slips and injures himself but saved by Shyamol. Meanwhile Brojen starts to have optical illusions. He demand for more food which leaves Anita fasting. Nirmal is infuriated by the gesture of Brojen and insults him for being insensitive and an uninvited guest who is a burden to them in this hour of crisis. Anita (Rituparna Sengupta) becomes weak and even faints. Shyamol tries to climb down the mountain alone but his nerves fail when he sees a dead body stuck in the rocks. He sees Anita drink the water washing a milk powder packet. Nirmal shouts at Brojen insulting him sorely. Anita and Shyamol (Parambrata Chatterjee) try to control him but fail. Anita cries out in anger to reveal the truth behind their apparently happy marriage. Brojen, driven nearly insane by hunger, tries to walk out during the night. Shyamol has to knock him unconscious to bring him back to his room. Sunita feeds her share of rice to Anita who tells her not to trust anyone, Brojen on Shyamol. Bimal contemplates suicide with sleeping pills. Everyone is shocked out of their respective stupors by the sounds of gun shots. Nirmal shoots birds in the hope of roasting them. When Shyamol tries to stop him, he points the gun at him saying that soon the only way out would be cannibalism. A shocked and desperate Shyamol begins to try to climb down the mountain again with the horrified Sunita watching. At this moment, relief comes making arrangements for the family's rescue, bringing hope to all.

Cast

• Sabyasachi Chakraborty - Nirmal Das
• Soumitra Chatterjee - Bimal Das
• Dipankar Dey - Brojen Lahiri
• Rituparna Sengupta - Anita Das
• Raima Sen - Sunita
• Parambrata Chatterjee - Shyamol Das

Awards

• BFJA Awards (2006)

• Best Screenplay-Sandip Ray

• BFJA - Most Promising Actor Award- Parambrato Chattopadhyay

• BFJA - Most Promising Actress Award- Raima Sen

References

External links

• Nishijapon at the Internet Movie Database
• www.telegraphindia.com A Ray for a Ray; so what?s new?