Circa 1962 in Calcutta, India, live three neighboring families in a upper middle-class area. Gurcharan lives in a palatial home Haveli with his wife, and two beautiful daughters, Lolita and Koyal. He is retired,unable to find suitable work and must live off of his savings, ends up mortgaging his house with his neighbor, Navinchandra Roy, and hopes to get his daughters married within his means; there is Charu Sharma, who lives with her brother and sister-in-law, who has a wealthy brother, Girish, who lives in Britain. And finally there are the Roys - Navinchandra, a hard-nosed businessman, who will never undertake anything unless there is a high level of profit for him, his son, Shekhar, who he hopes to groom after himself, and his quiet, devout wife. Navin realizes Gurcharan's plight and offers Lolita a job at his office in order to enable the family to survive. Shekhar and Lolita are attracted to each other, but Navin does not approve of this, as he wants Shekhar to get married to Gayetri Tatya, the daughter of his wealthy business associate. Then chaos descends on these families when Girish returns home, is attracted to Lolita and would like to marry her; Lolita finds out that Navin is bent on recovering his loan by evicting her family to a filthy go-down until they can find other means, and intends to build a five star hotel. Lolita must now act quickly to get her father to return the loan amount to Navin. But how will Gurcharan get 1.50 lakhs in so short a time? It does look like his family is destined to be evicted and face a life of destitution.
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Set in the Calcutta of early 60s, Parineeta explores complex human emotions through a moving love story.
Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan, Sanjay Dutt and Raima Sen play main roles in the movie.
Newcomer Vidya Balan plays Lolita, a gorgeous looking girl who came to live with her Uncle's family after she was orphaned at an early age. In her uncle's home she finds a new family, a friend and a companion.
Saif Ali Khan plays an aspiring musician named Shekhar. Shekhar and Lolita spend their childhood and adolescence together. They share their joys and sorrows. Often Shekhar plays his songs to Lolita and she sings along with him.
Over the years they spent together, a special bond of intimacy develops between Shekhar and Lolita. Gradually it culminates into love. But this realization dawns only with the coming of another man.
Sanjay Dutt plays Girish, the supposed outsider, whose arrival puts Shekhar and Lolita's love to test.
The film is directed by Pradeep Sarkar and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
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