Story, Synopsis, Trivia, Dialogues for Parama (1985)


Parama is a 1985 Indian Bollywood film released on 1985. Sen followed up her directorial debut, 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) with this story about a 40-year-old married woman, Parama (Raakhee) who falls in love with Rahul (Sharma), an exppatriate phot-journalist working for glossy magazines who photographs her making her look glamoruos. Their affair, and the ivasion of the glamour machine into her life, becomes a problem when some of the photographs, earlier admired by the family, are published in a journal. Parama is rejected by her husband and has a mental breakdown. In the end, a doctor suggests prescribing psychiatric treatment and when Parama adamantly refuses any sense of guilt, her young daughter comes and gives her mother moral support. The film is notable minly for its emancipatory thrust, undermined by a classinflected sense of nostalgia for belonging, rather than for its cinematic qualities which are akin to the kitschy style of glossy consumer magazines. The Bengali version, shown in Calcutta amid much controversy, was successful; the Hindi version was never properly released. [Source: Encl] Check out this page for more updates on Parama.

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