Mondo Meyer Upakhyan

Mondo Meyer Upakhyan Bengali , English languageA Tale of a Naughty Girl, released in the French language as Chroniques Indiennes is a 2002 Indian Bengali film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta and starring Rituparna Sengupta. The film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 2003.

Ganesh Tapas Paul works fulltime as a driver for wealthy Bengalispeaking, Natabar Paladhi Ram Gopal Bajaj, who lives in a mansion with his wife, children and grandchildren, and runs Anjali Cinema He has Ganesh use his vehicle as a private taxi cab. Amongst Ganeshs customers are a woman named Bakul June Malia, who alights near a town of Gosaipara to take up prostitution with Jamunabai an abandoned elderly couple who are in need of hospitalization there is none in the vicinity, and they end up secretly riding with Ganesh all the time while Natabar uses this vehicle to travel to Gosaipara to visit a prostitute named Rajani and negotiate with her so that he can have her 14yearold daughter, Lati, as his mistress. Things get complicated when Lati rebels against her mother so she can return to school, and a prostitute is about to get killed by her vengeful husband.Directors like Dasgupta and others of his ilk like Adoor Gopalakrishnan or Mrinal Sen make movies that are very specific to their own cultural milieu. A great master like the late Satyajit Ray was never comfortable when he stepped outside his native Bengal with his camera. So too Dasgupta. His latest work, Mondo Meyer Upakhyan A Tale of a Naughty Girl, is set in his favourite Purulia, a backward region in West Bengal. Beyond these main travails of Lati, Dasgupta presents a gripping account of village life. On Dasguptas canvas, one witnesses life in all its splendour. A Tale of a Naughty Girl is undoubtedly a piece of celluloid that elevates cinema to another realm. It is extremely positive, and probably comes from a deep sense of peace and tranquillity that Dasgupta must have achieved from his poetic inclination. ........

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