Summary Ravi has settled in his dreary fate as indented boy-laborer in a textile plant outside Calcutta, making sure he earns and saves more then other boys to buy his release. Yet when young, naive Masha is sold into service by her debt-crushed father, Ravi falls in love with her and rather the see her sold as private all-purposes servant, spends his savings on her release. They agree to meet in Calcutta's largest Shiva temple once he's free. Being the captive of his own skill, that takes years, while she becomes a brothel's star. Ravi arrives as a man, and unable to find her accepts to become an old carpet trader's brilliant right hand and near-fiancé of his beloved granddaughter Deepa. Fate makes her marry affluent customs official Yani and Ravi re-orphaned Deepa before the true lovers meet again. View more details
Directed : Florian Gallenberger
Written : Florian Gallenberger
Stars : Irrfan Khan Prashant Narayanan Tillotama Shome Tannishtha Chatterjee
Genres : Drama Romance
Release date : May 11, 2005
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : English Bengali
Filming locations : Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Production companies : CP Medien AG Fanes Film Diana-Film
Summary Ravi has settled in his dreary fate as indented boy-laborer in a textile plant outside Calcutta, making sure he earns and saves more then other boys to buy his release. Yet when young, naive Masha is sold into service by her debt-crushed father, Ravi falls in love with her and rather the see her sold as private all-purposes servant, spends his savings on her release. They agree to meet in Calcutta's largest Shiva temple once he's free. Being the captive of his own skill, that takes years, while she becomes a brothel's star. Ravi arrives as a man, and unable to find her accepts to become an old carpet trader's brilliant right hand and near-fiancé of his beloved granddaughter Deepa. Fate makes her marry affluent customs official Yani and Ravi re-orphaned Deepa before the true lovers meet again. View more details
Genres : Drama Romance
Release date : May 11, 2005
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : English Bengali
Filming locations : Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Production companies : CP Medien AG Fanes Film Diana-Film
