Movie: Parineeta
Director: Pradeep Sarkar
Year: 2005
Stars: Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Dia Mirza and others.

Snapshot of the story
Parineeta is a story of simple human emotions consists of love, happiness, ego, jealous, etc. Lolita (Played by Vidya Balan) is the lead characters of the story, an orphan who grew up in her uncle’s house, Shekhar (Saif Ali Khan) is her neighbor and childhood friend and Girish (Sanjay Dutt) a London return business-man loves Lotita.

Movie reviews and ratings of Parineeta

Parineeta is basically a story of a girl named Lolita (played Vidya Balan), who is an orphan and grew up in her uncle’s house. She is a born beauty, with awesome looks and is very attractive. Shekhar (played by Saif Ali Khan) is her neighbor and childhood friend. Both of them loved each other since childhood but their love is unspoken and often expressed in metaphors.

But unfortunately Shekhar’s father is a scheming man and has plans to usurp the property of Lolita’s uncle. His plans seems to be succeeding but here comes Girish (played by Sanjay Dutt), a businessman who helps Lolita’s uncle bail out of the financial crisis. He is a self-assured man of pragmatism and calm composure. Slowly with his jolly nature he begins to make place in Lolita’s heart. Shekhar start feeling jealous, rifts between the lovers goes on increasing day by day due to the aggressiveness of Shekhar.

Finally Shekhar gets married to his father’s business partner’s daughter Gayatri (played by Dia Mirza) and as a result of this heart break Lolita too, accepts a different destiny for herself and settles down. But the emotions that have been stifled keep simmering until they boil out in the climax of this story.

Director Pradeep Sarkar has made good movie inspired by the story of Saratchandra’s novel. It is well written and directed movie by Pradeep Sarkar as expected. Every character in the movie has done the perfect job.

Final Thoughts

Parineeta is a well directed movie by Pradeep Sarkar, manages to get the best out of all the characters. Best on the novel of Saratchandra’s Chatterjee written in mid 90’d but looks a fresh story. Vidya Balan has shows that she has talent and she can portray different style of characters. She has shows lots of grace in the movie, Saif Ali Khan was first time look very natural in Parineeta that show that he is improving. Sanjay Dutt shows flow less in his royal touch. Music is the soul of the movie with the song like “Piyu Bole” and “kasto mazza” are the pick of the songs. Shantanu Moitra did a fantastic job as Parineeta becomes his first hit movie.

Rating

Parieeta scores 7.5 out of 10 for it good movie to watch with good story, top class narration and finest screenplay. Parineeta again proves all you need a good story to make a hit.