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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 · A film by Aparna Sen, starring Jennifer Kendal as Violet Stoneham, an Anglo-Indian school-teacher who lives in a flat at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta. She befriends a former student and his wife, but faces betrayal and loneliness in her old age.
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- Drama, Romance
- Aparna Sen
- 1981-08-29
Aug 19, 2019 · The film follows the life of Violet Stoneham, an Anglo-Indian teacher who befriends a young couple in post-independence Calcutta. She revisits her past, her family, and her love for Shakespeare in this bittersweet tale of loss and loneliness.
- Ipshita Mitra
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 1993 film directed by Aparna Sen, starring Jennifer Kapoor as a teacher who helps a former student's romance. The film explores themes of identity, culture and betrayal in colonial Calcutta.
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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.
