Jennifer Kendal

After the marriage of her daughter, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a tom cat fo...( read more  read more... )r company. She is thrilled when a former student, Nandita Roy, looks her up and also brings her boyfriend, Samaresh Moitra, to her flat. Samaresh is an author and likes the solitude of Violet's flat, and would like to write his new novel there, to which Violet readily agrees to. He likes her antique record-player and she gives it to him as a gift. She hopes she has become part of a family again. It is Christmas time and Violet would like to bake a cake and visit Nandita and Samaresh to surprise them. But is a surprise that awaits her when she reaches her destination.

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Directed by: Aparna Sen

Release Date: August 29, 1981

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  • July 3, 2008
    Aparna Sen presents this National Award winning film which touches Hearts and takes you to a journey which showing you differwent aspects of love, relationship, oldage and loneliness!

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