"Parineeta" script for Oscar Library
By Taran Adarsh, August 17, 2005
Vidhu Vinod Chopra's PARINEETA has garnered the most prestigious
honor. The Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences has decided to include the script of the film as a part of
the Oscar Library.
The letter, signed by Gregory Walsh, Script Librarian, says, "The
script will be part of the permanent script collection and will be
made available for research to only actors, students, film-makers
and writers, who are part of the regular patrons. The script will
not be allowed to be circulated outside the library premises or
photo-copied"
Parineeta is a 2005 Bollywood screen adaptation of Sarat Chandra
Chattopadhyaya's classic love story.
The city of Calcutta - 1962. A city so vibrant, so alive, so
stylish - it was referred to as 'The Paris of the East'. This
exotic backdrop serves as the perfect locale for the tender,
immortal love story about to unfold.
A young girl Lalita (Vidya Balan), orphaned at an early age is sent
to live with her Uncle's family, where destiny introduces her to a
young boy Shekhar (Saif Ali Khan). Shekhar a budding musician is
the son of an affluent businessman.
Together through childhood and adolescence, Shekhar and Lalita
share joys and sorrows, fond memories and bittersweet experiences
and unknown to them a relationship of deep friendship and trust
takes place. It is an unspoken right they hold over each other that
metamorphoses into a love so intense; they do not even see it
coming.
It takes the arrival of an outsider Girish (Sanjay Dutt) for them
to discover their true feelings for each other. The chemistry
between Lalita and Shekhar sizzles and sparkles until it explodes.
But fate has something else in store for them?