Dosar (transl.Emotional companion) is a 2006 Bengali language Indian drama film. It was produced by Arindam Chaudhuri (Planman Motion Pictures) and directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The black-and-white film won the National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film) for the lead role portrayal by Prosenjit Chatterjee. The movie additionally stars Konkona Sen Sharma, who for her part won the Best Actress Award at the New York Film Festival in 2007.[1][2] The film was premiered in the 60th 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the Les Cinema Du Monde section.[3] The film was a sleeper hit at the box office.

Dosar
Movie poster for Dosar
Directed byRituparno Ghosh
Written byShirshendu Mukhopadhyay
StarringProsenjit Chatterjee
Konkona Sen Sharma
CinematographyAvik Mukhopadhyay
Edited byArghyakamal Mitra
Distributed byPlanman Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 14 April 2006 (2006-04-14)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Synopsis

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The story revolves around Kaushik (Prosenjit Chatterjee) and Kaberi (Konkona Sen Sharma), a happy couple until a car accident takes away Mita, Kaushik's mistress, and leaves Kaushik injured and grieving. Mita, the mother of a little boy and living with her husband, was Kaushik's colleague. This revelation leaves Kaberi shattered. Kaushik successfully moves on with life leaving Mita behind and tries his best to repair the severely wounded relationship with his wife. Another couple in the film, Brinda (Pallavi Chatterjee) and Bobby (Parambrata Chatterjee), are also engaged in an extramarital relation. While Bobby is a bachelor, Brinda, quite older than Bobby, is unhappily married. They and Kaberi do group theatre together. Brinda-Bobby comes to a crossroads when Brinda becomes pregnant and Bobby is not sure whether the child is his or her husband's. However, he does not turn back and stands by Brinda in sorting out her issues.

Kaberi often threatens divorce but ultimately is overpowered by the wife in her and cannot resist fulfilling her duties towards her husband at the time of crisis. On the other hand, Kaushik is also caught in his own predicament. He has to not only come to terms with the loss of a loved one but is faced with the daunting task of winning back his wife's trust.

 
Producer Subho Shekhar Bhattacharjee presenting the film at IFFI (2006)

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References

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  1. ^ "Yash manjaris faltu wins national award". 19 June 2008.
  2. ^ "Indiafm". Dosar. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2006.
  3. ^ "Time of India". Dosar at Caanes. 17 May 2007. Retrieved 17 May 2007.
  4. ^ "ndtvmovies". Konkona wins best actress award in NYC. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 12 November 2007.
  5. ^ "ndtvmovies". Ghosh wins best director award in NYC. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 12 November 2007.
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