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| Directed by | Rituparno Ghosh |
| Written by | Rituparno Ghosh |
| Starring | Dipankar Dey Jishu Sengupta Mamata Shankar Riya Sen Ananya Chatterjee |
| Music by | 21 Grams |
| Cinematography | Avik Mukherjee |
| Editing by | Arghya Kamal Mitra |
| Distributed by | Big Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 22 January 2010 |
| Running time | 122 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Abohomaan (English: The Eternal) is a 2010 Bengali-language film by Rituparno Ghosh, which explores the nuances of relationships through a married film director who falls in love with an actress, as young as his son.[1] The film stars Deepankar De, Mamata Shankar, Ananya Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Riya Sen and is produced by Big Pictures. Rituparno Ghosh and Ananya Chatterjee won National Film Awards in 2010 as Best Director and Best Actress respectively.[2]
Earlier, Rituparno Ghosh had planned to remake the 1960s classic by Guru Dutt, Kaagaz Ke Phool in Hindi as Kya Haseen Sitam, with Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Vidya Balan, later decided to make it in Bengali, as Abahoman.[3]
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Aniket (Deepankar De) is one of the finest filmmakers of Bengal, Deepti (Mamata Shankar) is an actress, with whom he had fallen in love while casting in one of his films, who had sacrificed her career for love and marriage. Apratim (Jisshu Sengupta) is their only son. They had been a perfect family.
The plot thickens when Aniket auditions a young actress, Shikha (Ananya Chatterjee), who bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger. Deepti enthusiastically begins to coach Shikha for her husband's film — so much so that Shikha becomes even more like the young woman Deepti used to be and, as a result, the aging Aniket falls in love with Shikha, a woman as young as his son, despite the sadness and trouble it brings to his family.
The film has won the following awards since its release:
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