Paromiter Ek Din

With Paromiter Ek Din, Aparna Sen added another masterpiece to her glorious career. 

Released in the year 2000, the film marks yet another milestone in Aparna’s glittering career.
A young girl, Paromita is married into a traditional Bengali family in Kolkata. After marriage she
discovers she does not have much in common with her husband Biresh.

Biresh has a serious drinking habit which is unacceptable to her. Going against the usual Indian family clichés, Paromita develops a special bond with her mother-in-law, Sonaka and becomes attached to Khuku, her sister-in-law. She identifies with Khuku because her own child, Bablu, is born with a disability. As a result, Biresh finds this difficult to accept and becomes even more irritable with Paromita, but Sonaka consoles her in her grief. This thin bond breaks with the passing away of Bablu.

By now, Biresh begins an affair with another woman and Paromita finds herself taking a liking for Semiran, a filmmaker she had met at a spastics society. Through the film, the one relationship that stays constant and even grows to the point of love, is the rather odd pairing of the mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law.

Awards
2000 Fipresci Prize - Venice
2000 Special Mention Award - Ecumenical Jury’s