Unishe April (1994)
November 18, 1994Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Aparna Sen
Sarojini 'Babli' Gupta
Debashree Roy
Dr. Aditi 'Mithu' Sen
Prosenjit Chatterjee
Sudip
Dipankar Dey
Somnath
Chitra Sen
Bela 'Boya'
Bodhisattva Mazumdar
Dr. Manish Sen
Sudeshna Roy
Ahana Banerjee
Malay Bhattacharya
Rupa Das
Puspita Gangopadhyay
Rituparno Ghosh
Director / Screenplay
Jyotishka Dasgupta
Music
Sunirmal Mazumdar
Cinematography
Renu Roy
Producer
Shoubhik Mitra
Executive Producer
Ujjal Nandi
Editor
Raja Biswas
Costume Designer
Bhim Naskar
Makeup Artist
Robin Naskar
Assistant Makeup Artist
Debabrata Dutta
Assistant Director
Sudhendu Mishra
Assistant Director
Alok Mitra
Assistant Director
Sumanta Mukherjee
Assistant Director
Rana Paul
Assistant Director
Sohag Sen
Assistant Director
Chinmaya Nath
Sound
Ingmar Bergman
Original Concept
Madhuchhanda Ghosh
Probir Ghosh
Tapas Thakur
Sumit Roy
Dipanwita Nag
Dipanwita Mukherjee
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Unishe April (Bengali pronunciation: [u̯niʃe epril], transl. April 19) is a 1994 Indian Bengali-language drama film directed by Rituparno Ghosh and produced by Renu Roy under the banner of Spandan Films. It stars Aparna Sen and Debashree Roy while Prosenjit Chatterjee and Deepankar De appear in supporting roles. The music of the film was composed by Jyotishka Dasgupta.
Unishe April marked Ghosh's second directorial venture after Hirer Angti (1992). A loose remake of Ingmar Bergman's film Autumn Sonata (1978), it opened to widespread acclaim, with critical praise drawn towards the screenplay and performances by the lead actors—especially that of Sen and Ray, the latter eventually winning the National film Award for Best Actress. Ghosh, besides directing the film, also wrote the screenplay while the cinematography was handled by Sunirmal Mazumdar.
The film's narrative revolves around the tensed relationship between a woman who is an uninvolved parent and her daughter, depicting how their inter-personal matters lead to a bitter aspect of life. Considered way ahead of its time, the huge success of the film was instrumental in ending the era of action films in Bengali film industry and rejuvenating the genre of art films. Ray's award-winning performance further consolidated her position as the 'undisputed queen of Bengali cinema'. At the 42nd National Film Awards, it won Best Feature Film and was nominated for the New Currents Award at the Busan International Film Festival of 1996.