Saat Paake Bandha
| Saat Paake Bandha | |
|---|---|
 Poster of Movie | |
| Directed by | Sujit Mondal |
| Produced by | Shree Venkatesh Films |
| Screenplay by | N.K. Salil |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Jeet Ganguly |
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Running time | 149 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Saat Paake Bandha is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Sujit Mondol. The film starred Jeet and Koyel Mullick, who also featured in "Ghatak" in 2006.It is a remake of 1996 Telugu movie Pavitra Bandham which was also remade as Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in Hindi featuring Anil Kapoor and Kajol in the lead roles.
Plot
Rahul (Jeet), the son of a wealthy but traditional industrialist, returned home to his father after completing his academic career in foreign lands. When the father tries to persuade him in his marriage he puts up a fantastic condition - that he will marry the girl of his father’s choice and will live as married couple for one year only, after which, if either of the two seems to feel distant from the other, the marriage will be called off. Surprisingly, the traditional father agrees and chooses Pallavi (Koel Mallick), his PA as the most appropriate bride.
Now Pallavi’s family consisted of her widowed mother, an elder sister deprived of her husband, a younger brother not at all competent for any job, and the youngest sister getting pregnant with the boyfriend trying to avoid responsibilities. So Pallavi, just to save her family, accepted the contract much against her wishes and thus began a curious way of life with both of the wedlocked couple leading an unreal lifestyle.
Though both shared the same bed, but Rahul seemed to be oddly insensitive to Pallavi’s emotions. Thus it was not strange that he never cared to celebrate Pallavi’s birthday and his scathing remarks while appreciating Pallavi’s cooking hurt her feelings and duty seemed the only virtue that kept Rahul any closer to his wife. But the artificiality of the story is vividly brought to fore when Rahul, after quickly recovering from a comatose condition, chiefly due to Pallavi’s sincerest nursing, doesn’t hesitate to declare that the next day is the end of their contract term when he will be willingly divorcing Pallavi. Well at this point if the audience thought that the story is nearing a tragic completion, it is only the Intermission that is declared.
In the second half we see that the table turns as Rahul suddenly feels sympathetic to Pallavi and all his passions overwhelms him so much that he rushes to his in-laws’ house and requests Pallavi’s return. But no says the director, and the story goes on with Pallavi now rejecting all the ardent proposals of Rahul, be it him buying all the shares of Pallavi’s new struggling organization just to secure for himself the position of Pallavi’s boss. Surprises seem to be on store for the audience with Pallavi conceiving a child (just imagine that Rahul was in comatose for a pretty long time and the day he recovered, the couple separated) and now Rahul, in sympathy arranges for an AC bus for her and shifts her office to the ground floor. Now the only thing that remains is revelation and Pallavi invites and insults Rahul in one of the most improbable of settings with Rahul sophisticatedly defending his views.
Finally after all these, the two again reunites in hospital bed after the severely injured Rahul takes Pallavi to the maternity ward (it is clearly indicated in the picture that Pallavi was less than seven months pregnant though she suffers serious labour pains and again when the baby was delivered no sign of immaturity is ever observed) and they celebrate the simultaneous delivery of the child and Rahul’s recovery from his critical condition. Thus family ties are again restored and the happy ending is guaranteed.
Cast
- Jeet as Rahul
- Koel Mallick as Pallavi
- Ranjit Mallick as Rahul's Father
- Locket Chatterjee as Pallavi's Sister
- Laboni Sarkar as Pallavi's Mother
References
The script is heavily lifted from Telugu movie pavitra bandham starring Venkatesh, Soundarya and SP Balasubramanyam as Venkatesh's father.