36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)

Directors

Aparna Sen

Cast

Jennifer Kendal, Debashree Roy, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Geoffrey Kendal

The story

In post-independence India an Anglo-Indian teacher, Violet Stoneham (Jennifer Kendal), lives a quiet and uneventful life at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, now Kolkata. Her brother Eddie (Geoffrey Kendal, Jennifer's father in real life) is senile and ailing in a nursing home. After the marriage of her niece Rosemary (Soni Razdan), she is alone except for her cat, Sir Toby.

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