Parshuramer Kuthar
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Parshuramer Kuthar is an award-winning 1989
, Bengali
film by Nabyendu Chatterjee.The lead actress, Sreelekha Mukherji
, won the distinguished National Film Award for Best Actress
for her role.
) a Bengali village woman whose husband fell from a roof while she was expecting her first baby, and has remained cripple ever since. She has lost her baby from the shock, and as a meagre compensation, is offered work as a wet-nurse in middle-class families where presumably women have other things to do than feed their children. Perhaps because of the social difference, she is in no position to resist the advances from the “gentlemen” who take advantage of her presence, and she soon finds herself caught in a system whereby if she wants to bring some cash home, and feed an ailing husband, she needs to continue to breast-feed. Naturally this can only be achieved if she delivers again, and so she does. But she has no children. One day, before important elections, alongside with a street-cleaning programme ,she is asked to leave town because she’s a prostitute. She then tries to meet the “gentlemen” who formerly used to be pleased with her in more than one way, but all of them reject her, now that the word “prostitute” has been pronounced publicly. She will end up a pensioner in the brothel and the last picture is that of one young man coming to look at her, a young man whom she had lovingly suckled when he was a baby.
1990 National Film Awards
(India
)
1989 in film
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, Bengali
Bengali cinema
Bengali cinema refers to the Bengali language filmmaking industries in the Bengal region of South Asia. There are two major film-making hubs in the region: one in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and the other in Dhaka, Bangladesh .The history of cinema in Bengal dates back to the 1890s, when the first...
film by Nabyendu Chatterjee.The lead actress, Sreelekha Mukherji
Sreelekha Mukherji
Sreelekha Mukherji is a National award winning Indian Bengali actress. She is known for her lead role in the film Parshuramer Kuthar for which she won the National Award.-External links:...
, won the distinguished National Film Award for Best Actress
National Film Award for Best Actress
The National Film Award for Best Actress is an honor presented annually at the National Film Awards of India to an actress who has delivered the best performance in a leading role within the Indian film industry...
for her role.
Synopsis
The film is about Lakkhi (Sreelekha MukherjiSreelekha Mukherji
Sreelekha Mukherji is a National award winning Indian Bengali actress. She is known for her lead role in the film Parshuramer Kuthar for which she won the National Award.-External links:...
) a Bengali village woman whose husband fell from a roof while she was expecting her first baby, and has remained cripple ever since. She has lost her baby from the shock, and as a meagre compensation, is offered work as a wet-nurse in middle-class families where presumably women have other things to do than feed their children. Perhaps because of the social difference, she is in no position to resist the advances from the “gentlemen” who take advantage of her presence, and she soon finds herself caught in a system whereby if she wants to bring some cash home, and feed an ailing husband, she needs to continue to breast-feed. Naturally this can only be achieved if she delivers again, and so she does. But she has no children. One day, before important elections, alongside with a street-cleaning programme ,she is asked to leave town because she’s a prostitute. She then tries to meet the “gentlemen” who formerly used to be pleased with her in more than one way, but all of them reject her, now that the word “prostitute” has been pronounced publicly. She will end up a pensioner in the brothel and the last picture is that of one young man coming to look at her, a young man whom she had lovingly suckled when he was a baby.
Awards
The film has won the following awards since its release:1990 National Film Awards
National Film Awards
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it is administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.Every year, a national panel...
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India
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- Won - Silver Lotus Award - Best Actress - Sreelekha MukherjiSreelekha MukherjiSreelekha Mukherji is a National award winning Indian Bengali actress. She is known for her lead role in the film Parshuramer Kuthar for which she won the National Award.-External links:...
- Won - Silver Lotus Award - Second Best Feature FilmNational Film Award for Second Best Feature FilmThe National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film winners :-See also:...