"Parineeta" script for Oscar Library
By Taran Adarsh, August 17, 2005
Vidhu Vinod Chopra's PARINEETA has garnered the most prestigious honor. The Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has decided to include the script of the film as a part of the Oscar Library.
The letter, signed by Gregory Walsh, Script Librarian, says, "The script will be part of the permanent script collection and will be made available for research to only actors, students, film-makers and writers, who are part of the regular patrons. The script will not be allowed to be circulated outside the library premises or photo-copied"
Parineeta is a 2005 Bollywood screen adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya's classic love story.
The city of Calcutta - 1962. A city so vibrant, so alive, so stylish - it was referred to as 'The Paris of the East'. This exotic backdrop serves as the perfect locale for the tender, immortal love story about to unfold.
A young girl Lalita (Vidya Balan), orphaned at an early age is sent to live with her Uncle's family, where destiny introduces her to a young boy Shekhar (Saif Ali Khan). Shekhar a budding musician is the son of an affluent businessman.
Together through childhood and adolescence, Shekhar and Lalita share joys and sorrows, fond memories and bittersweet experiences and unknown to them a relationship of deep friendship and trust takes place. It is an unspoken right they hold over each other that metamorphoses into a love so intense; they do not even see it coming.
It takes the arrival of an outsider Girish (Sanjay Dutt) for them to discover their true feelings for each other. The chemistry between Lalita and Shekhar sizzles and sparkles until it explodes. But fate has something else in store for them?