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Ek Din Achanak is a film of genre Drama directed by Mrinal Sen with Dr. Shriram Lagoo
Ek Din Achanak (1989)
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Add to a movie listEk Din Achanak (Hindi: एक दिन अचानक, English: Suddenly, One Day) is a 1989 art film directed by Mrinal Sen, based on a Bengali novel, Beej by Ramapada Chowdhury.
Synopsis
One evening, in the midst of torrential rains, a professor (Shreeram Lagoo) goes out for a walk and fails to return. As the evening stretches into days and the days into weeks with no sign of him, the member of his family struggle both to regain their footing and to understand what might have caused him to leave. Slowly they return to their quotidian activities. The professor's son Amit (Arjun Chakraborty) establishes his fledgling business; his younger daughter Sima (Roopa Ganguly) resumes her studies at college; and his elder daughter, Neeta (Shabana Azmi), the backbone of the family, returns to her office job.Actors
Dr. Shriram Lagoo
(Shashank Roy)
Shabana Azmi
(Neeta Roy)
Aparna Sen
(Aparna Choudhary)
Uttara Baokar
(Sudha Roy)
Roopa Ganguly
(Seema Roy)
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