Bimal Roy Film Festival - Parineeta

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The Bimal Roy Centenary Committee, in collaboration with Moving Images and the Hyderabad Film Club, is organising a film festival of the legendary director the late Bimal Roy, from 29th to 31st January, at Prasads IMAX and Cinemax.



A total of 9 films - Devdas, Do Bigha Zameen, Parakh, Yahudi, Madhumati, Bandini, Sujata, Udayer Pathey and Parineeta, and a documentary titled Remembering Bimal Roy, will be screened during the 3-day festival. Parineeta is the film that will be screened on the last day, at the Cinemax.



Parineeta is a 1953 film based upon the 1914 novel by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and was directed by Bimal Roy. This version of the film is considered by some to be the most faithful adaptation of the Novella, particularly due to Meena Kumari's interpretation of the role of Lalita.



Lalita is an orphaned niece of an impoverished clerk named Gurucharan. She falls in love with Shekhar, the son of their rich landlord neighbor. Gurucharan has to mortgage his house to Shekhar