Miss Violet Stoneham
Search results
36 Chowringhee Lane is a 1981 film written and directed by Aparna Sen and produced by Shashi Kapoor. It marked the directorial debut of Sen, who had until then been known as a leading actress of Bengali cinema.
Aug 29, 1981 · 36 Chowringhee Lane: Directed by Aparna Sen. With Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Geoffrey Kendal. After marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta.
Aug 19, 2019 · In an interesting essay titled ‘ English Shakespeares in Indian Cinema: 36 Chowringhee Lane and The Last Lear ’, Rosa M Garcia-Periago suggests, the title of the film was not an arbitrary choice: ‘Curiously enough, Chowringhee Road — the street where Miss Violet Stoneham’s apartment is located — was one of the favorite places of residence for th...
Aug 16, 2023 · 36 Chowringhee Lane is one of a handful of Indian films portraying the life and culture of a fast-dwindling minority community, the Anglo-Indians, in India. The text is an engrossing study of the cultural ‘outsider’ – a theme that has received artistic attention all over the world.
A lonely, middle-aged Anglo-Indian teacher at a private girls' school in Calcutta, who encourages, aids and creates a haven for the romance of an ex-student, becomes disillusioned when she realizes that the student and her boyfriend have ulterior motives.
36 Chowringhee Lane is the story of a middle-aged school teacher who is trapped in her loneliness. Her name is Violet, and after the marriage of her beloved niece, who is her only relative apart from her brother, she lives as a recluse all alone, having only one joy of teaching Shakespeare at school where not a single student really cares about it.
After the marriage of her niece, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat in Calcutta, with only a tom cat for company. She is thrilled when a former student looks her up and also brings her boyfriend to her flat.
