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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Bariwali<br />
| image = Bariwali.gif<br />
| starring = [[Kirron Kher]]<br>[[Chiranjeet]]<br>[[Roopa Ganguly]]<br>[[Sudipta Chakraborty]]<br>[[Abhishek Chatterjee]]<br />
| director = [[Rituparno Ghosh]]<br />
| producer = [[Anupam Kher]]<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|2000}}<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
| editing = [[Arghyakamal Mitra]]<br />
| music = [[Debojyoti Mishra]]<br />
| cinematography = Vivek Shah<br />
| budget = <br />
| runtime = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Bariwali''''' (''LandLady'') is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film released in 2000 directed by [[Rituparno Ghosh]]. The film features [[Kirron Kher]], [[Roopa Ganguly]], and [[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
The film is a quiet drama about a lonely, sad, unfortunate middle-aged woman. Banalata ([[Kiron Kher]]) has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production unit to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate. Suddenly her house is filled with movie stars and glamorous people, including the beautiful actress Sudeshna (Roopa Ganguly) and charming director Deepankar ([[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]]). Though she knows that not only is Deepankar married but that his former lover Sudeshna still holds a torch for him, the lonely woman finds herself drawn to the director. He is exactly the sort of worldly character whom she has always longed to meet. The rakish man flirts back and even persuades Banalata to appear in a [[bit part]] in the movie. Yet once the film crew decamps, things at the estate return to the same grinding tedium as before, though the woman feels her isolation all the more acutely. The letters that Banalata writes to Deepankar go unanswered, and her bit part in the movie ends up on the cutting-room floor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://movies.aol.com/movie/bariwali/1142850/synopsis?date=20061022 |title=Movies &#124; Movie Times &#124; Tickets &#124; Movies Now Playing &#124; Moviefone.com |publisher=Movies.aol.com |date=1964-01-20 |access-date=2012-07-08 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Kirron Kher]] as Banalata{{efn-la|Voice dubbed by [[Rita Koiral]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/entertainment/recognising-behind-the-voice-actors/article8457780.ece|title=Recognising 'behind the voice actors'|newspaper=The Hindu|publisher=thehindu.com|date=2016-04-10|access-date=2020-06-18|last1=Rajadhyaksha|first1=Radha}}</ref>}}<br />
* [[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]] as Deepankar{{efn-la|Voice dubbed by [[Sabyasachi Chakrabarty]]}}<br />
* [[Roopa Ganguly]] as Sudeshna Mitra<br />
* [[Sudipta Chakraborty]] as Malati<br />
* [[Surya Chatterjee]] as Prasanna<br />
* [[Abhishek Chatterjee]] as Abhijeet Chatterjee <br />
* [[Shiboprosad Mukherjee]] as Debashish<br />
* [[Sudeshna Roy]]<br />
* [[Rukkmini Ghosh]]<br />
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== Awards ==<br />
*[[National Film Award for Best Actress]] for Kirron Kher<br />
*[[National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress]] for [[Sudipta Chakraborty]]<br />
*[[Berlin International Film Festival|Netpac Award]] for [[Rituparno Ghosh]] (tied with [[Yuji Nakae]] for ''[[Nabbie's Love]]'')<br />
* [[Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards]] 2001 – ''[[Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Supporting Actress Award|Best Supporting Actress]]'' for the film 'Bariwali' for [[Sudipta Chakraborty]]<br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
[[Rita Koiral]], an Indian actress in the [[Bengali language]], in a 2017 TV show, claimed, she was asked to withhold to the media, the fact that she had dubbed the voice of actress [[Kirron Kher]]. Her contribution was not declared in the national awards nominations for the movie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/entertainment/the-old-dubbing-controversy-resurfaces-to-embarrass-bjps-poster-boy-anupam-kher-and-his-wife-bjp-mp-kirron-kher|title=When Anupam Kher threatened to ruin the career of an actor|publisher=nationalheraldindia.com|date=2017-06-29|access-date=2020-06-18}}</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
{{Notelist}}<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=0239251|title=Bariwali}}<br />
* [https://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jul2000/sff2-j07.shtml Critical look at ''Bariwali''] – Sydney Film Festival<br />
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[[Category:2000 films]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali-language Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Films featuring a Best Actress National Award–winning performance]]<br />
[[Category:Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress National Film Award–winning performance]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Rituparno Ghosh]]<br />
[[Category:2000 Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films about landlords]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Debojyoti Mishra]]</div>NydiaTalley110