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Subhash K Jha shines the light on Pradeep Sarkar’s Parineeta, which featured Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt and was the debut film for Vidya Balan. We also hear from Saif Ali Khan talking about the brilliant romantic drama that was released in 2005.

There’s no getting away from Devdas in this Parineeta a fascinating, absorbing: and largely sensitive rendering of Hindi litterateur Saratchandra’s other study of the male ego and its tragic repercussion on matters of the heart, set within a feudal backdrop. Parineeta had been done on several occasions in the past with actresses as varied as Meena Kumari and Sulakshana Pandit playing Lalita, the protagonist.

Debutant Pradeep Sarkar’s adaptation of the complex original material is as far removed from Bimal Roy’s Parineeta as Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas was from Bimal Roy’s earlier classics.

Literary classics are open to more than one interpretation.

Here’s A Look At Our One Concern About Rani Mukerji’s Mardaani 3 Amid Release Date Announcement! ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Earlier today, Yash Raj Films (Yrf) officially announced that Mardaani 3 will be released in theatres on February 27, 2026, during the Holi festival period. Powerhouse performer Rani Mukerji will reprise her role as the tough, no-nonsense cop Shivani Shivaji Rao in the third instalment of the much-admired franchise. The film is being described as dark, deadly, and brutal. And going by the first look of the immensely talented actress, the viewers should be in for a treat.

Mardaani & Mardaani 2: Story & Feedback

The first Mardaani film was directed by Late Pradeep Sarkar (Director – Parineeta). It was about how a senior and dedicated cop (Rani Mukerji) becomes hellbent on exposing the case of the kidnapping of young girls by a child trafficking mafia. In the sequel, Mardaani 2, the story...

Rukmini Maitra (“Sanak”) will play the lead in Ram Kamal Mukherjee’s Bengali-language film “Binodiini – Ekti Natir Upakhyan” (“Binodiini – Tale of a Theater Artist”).

The film will be a biopic of Binodini Dasi, also known as Nati Binodini, who had a flourishing career as an theater actor in 19th century Bengal between the ages of 12 and 23 and was known for her innovations, including creating a stage make-up style that blended European and Indian techniques. (The difference in spelling between the actor’s name and the title of the film is due to numerology.)

The film is written by Priyanka Poddar (“Parineeta”) and will be produced by Shhailendra Kkumar for SS1 Entertainment and Suraj Sharma for Pk Entertainment, who are currently collaborating on “1770 – Ek Sangram,” and Prateek Chakravorty for Pramod Films (“Maara”) in association with Mukherjee’s Assorted Motion Pictures and popular Bengali cinema actor Dev Adhikari’s Dev Entertainment Ventures.

‘Spy Bahu’ actor Parineeta Borthakur took to her Instagram to share a video of her dancing with a skeleton for a sequence in the show and recalled how terrified she was at night after the shoot.

She said: “When I got to know that the script required me to shoot with a fake skeleton, I was really excited. Initially I had scenes with the skeleton, but then I had a dance sequence with it for my track in the show. I was really in a funny mood and in fact on the day of shoot, we had a lot of fun.

“The team was around watching me perform with the skeleton and they also played the stairs sequence song from the film ‘Joker’ to lift my mood. The environment around me was so joyful.”

However, what happened to her at night was horrifying.

She said: “When I came back home after the shoot,...