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{{Infobox film
| name = Ek Din Pratidin
| image = Ek Din Pratidin DVD cover.jpeg
| caption = Ek Din Pratidin DVD cover
| director = [[Mrinal Sen]]
| producer =
| writer = [[Mrinal Sen]] (writer)<br> Amalendu Chakraborty (novel)
| narrator =
| starring = [[Mamata Shankar]]<br>[[Gita Sen]]<br>[[Sreela Majumdar]]<br>[[Satya Bandhyopadhyay]]
| music = [[B.V. Karanth]]
| cinematography = [[K. K. Mahajan]]
| editing = [[:en:Gangadhar_Naskar|Gangadhar Naskar]]
| studio = Mrinal Sen Productions
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|1979|}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = India
| language = Bengali
| budget =
}}

'''''Ek Din Pratidin''''' ([[Bengali language|Bengali]]: এক দিন প্রতিদিন, <abbr>lit</abbr>: "A Day Like Any Other," [[English language|English]] title: "And Quiet Rolls the Dawn") is a 1979 Bengali [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film directed by [[Mrinal Sen]], who also wrote the screenplay based on an [[Amalendu Chakraborty]] novel. Set in contemporary India, the film follows the trauma experienced by a family when the breadwinning daughter fails to return from work. The film spans the period of one evening and night.

The film won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali]] and the [[National Film Award for Best Direction]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=National Awards 1979 Winners |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/movie-awards/national-awards-winners/1979/108 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913180640/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/movie-awards/national-awards-winners/1979/108 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |access-date=September 13, 2024 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> It was entered into the [[1980 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1844/year/1980.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Ek Din Pratidin |accessdate=2009-05-26 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003193700/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1844/year/1980.html |archivedate=3 October 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Plot==
A middle-class family of seven members, with a father (Satya Bandhyopadhyay), mother (Gita Sen), three sisters and two brothers, are economically dependent on the earnings of the sole breadwinner of the family, the oldest daughter, Chinu (Mamata Shankar).

One evening, Chinu fails to return at the regular hour from her work office. At first members of the family assume that she is working overtime and will arrive later. Later, one of her sisters (Sreela Majumdar) goes out to make a phone call to see if she can contact the office, but there is no response. The family begins to worry. And the landlord and several tenants begin to become interested in the case. Some tenants are sympathetic to the family, others, including the landlord, are more critical. The oldest son goes to the police station to lodge a complaint and then to the morgue to see if the recently deceased bodies include his sister, he is sickened by the experience. The family also make a trip to the hospital to see if a recently injured lady is their Chinu and are relieved that she is not. Soon after, Chinu returns home but is surprised by the coldness of the family’s response and then an altercation breaks out between the family and the landlord.

== Cast ==
* [[Gita Sen]] as the mother
* [[Satya Bandhyopadhyay]] as the father
* [[Mamata Shankar]] as Chinu the oldest daughter
* [[Sreela Majumdar]] as Minu, the second oldest daughter
* [[Kaushik Sen]]
* Nalini Banerjee
* Arun Mukherjee
* Umanath Bhattacharya
* [[Biplab Chatterjee]]

== Themes ==
Film historian [[Shoma A. Chatterji|Shoma A Chatterji]], writes, regarding the relationship between the family and Chinu, that underneath the events of the film lie the “unresolved attitude towards a working daughter who cannot be treated in the same manner as a working son.” In the film’s long night that value is laid bare and examined by the filmmakers. For Chinu, she writes, economic possibilities lead not to freedom but to a burden that she cannot escape from. Chinu’s earnings are “usurped to fulfil the needs of the family, for the good-for-nothing older brother's pocket money and for the younger sister's education.”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chatterji |first=Shoma A. |author-link=Shoma A. Chatterji |date=May 15, 2021 |title=Mrinal Sen's Chinu: The absent protagonist |url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/films/mrinal-sens-chinu-the-absent-protagonist |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515033028/https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/films/mrinal-sens-chinu-the-absent-protagonist |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |access-date=September 27, 2024 |website=National Herald |language=en}}</ref>

== Awards ==
*[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali]]
*[[National Film Award for Best Direction]]
*[[National Film Award for Best Editing]]-Gangadhar Naskar

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0079098|title=Ek Din Pratidin}}
*[http://www.boloji.com/cinema/quietrolls.htm A review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110324142106/http://www.boloji.com/cinema/quietrolls.htm |date=24 March 2011 }}

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[[Category:Films whose editor won the Best Film Editing National Award]]
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