Parineeta
2005 Indian film by Pradeep Sarkar · Released 2005
Parineeta (transl. The Married Woman) is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1914 Bengali novel of the same name. Directed by debutant Pradeep Sarkar, it was based on a screenplay by the film's producer, Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, and Vidya Balan (in her Bollywood debut) in lead roles, with Raima Sen, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty and Dia Mirza in supporting roles. The film has several notable allusions to Indian literature and cinema.
Cast ages at release (2005)
- Rekhā: 50–51
- Sanjay Dutt, as Girish Sharma: 45–46
- Saif Ali Khan, as Shekhar Rai: 34–35
- Dia Mirza, as Gayatri Tantiya: 23–24
- Raima Sen, as Koel: 25–26
- Vidya Balan, as Lalita: 26
- Amitabh Bachchan: 62–63
- Achyut Potdar, as Gurcharan: 70–71
- Surinder Kaur, as Rajeshwari Rai: 75–76