Shubho Mahurat

Shubho Mahurat

Infobox Film
name = Shubho Mahurat


director = Rituparno Ghosh
writer = Agatha Christie (story) Rituparno Ghosh (screenplay)
starring = Rakhee Gulzar
Sharmila Tagore
Nandita Das
Sumanta Mukherjee
released = 2003
runtime = 150 minutes
language = Bengali
music =
imdb_id = 0368969

"Shubho Mahurat" (2003) is an award-winning Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film is based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple story The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.

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The phrase ‘Shubho Mahurat’ is associated with the beginning of shooting for a feature film. The first day of shooting is usually marked by a grand reception, followed by a token shooting or vice-versa. This Miss Marple-esque film began with this event. An NRI producer,Padmini Choudhary(Sharmila Tagore) has come to India to invest in a film. An out-of-work director is assigned the job of direction.

The out-of-work director had a shady past. The witness to his shady past was an aspiring actor, who was subsequently thrown out of the acting circuit.Thereafter, this actor started a catering service for the film unit. The NRI producer insisted on casting a retired actress in a prominent role. The retired actress, a drug-addict, subsequently died under mysterious circumstances.The NRI producer insisted on casting a retired actress in a prominent role. The retired actress, a drug-addict, subsequently died under mysterious circumstances.The journalist Mallika Sen (Nandita Das) was the only person present at the time of the actress’ death. The suspicion naturally fell on the husband of the actress.

The husband reportedly has an amorous relationship with another lady. The unnatural death of the actress made the police come into the scene. An IPS officer took up the investigation. During the course of investigation, this IPS officer befriends the journalist. Meanwhile, the journalist caught the fancy of a still photographer, who incidentally, was closely related to the NRI producer.

This NRI producer had a past no less interesting than the other protagonists of the story. The NRI producer was an actress of repute in her heyday. She divorced her husband and left the country to settle abroad. Before that, she had given birth to an abnormal child. The course of the film revealed that she bore a grudge against an actress of her time, for spreading the contagious in her.

Another amorous affair also ran parallel to the main theme. The camera assistant was repenting for his past affair with the hair-dresser. The hair-dresser had her problems and she was extracting money very often from the camera assistant. All through the movie' the aunt of the journalist,Ranga Pishima (Rakhi) gave vital leads to the investigation through deductive logic. She was able to read the mind of the niece correctly. He valuable inputs finally led to solve the murder mystery.

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