Parineeta

Awards

Song Awards:
• 2005 - Screen Awards - Best Female Playback Singer - Piyu Bole - Shreya Ghoshal

Trivia

Album

• This film was based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel of the same name. The novel was also adapted for the Hindi films "Parineeta" (1953) and "Sankoch" (1976).[1][2]
• This was actress Vidya Balan's debut film. It was also director Pradeep Sarkar's first film.
• Real-life mother and daughter, Rita Ganguly and Meghna Kothari, worked together in this film. Rita Ganguly, a Hindustani classical musical, had worked earlier in the film "Darmiyaan" (1997). Meghna Kothari had debuted in the Hindi film "Prem Aggan" (1998).[3][4]

Song

• Soona Mann Ka Aangan - This song was partly inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's composition "Phule Phule Dhole Dhole". Another Hindi film song, "Raja Mere Tere Liye" ("Aap Ki Khatir", 1977), had used the same tune earlier.[5][6]
• Kaisi Paheli Zindagani - This song is built on the base tune of "A Kiss To Build A Dream On", composed by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II. The song is best known for the version recorded by Louis Armstrong.[7]
• Kaisi Paheli Zindagani - Rekha's cameo in this song was her first on-screen appearance with Sanjay Dutt after "Zameen Aasman" (1984). The two actors had not worked together since then after various media outlets had reported that they had gotten married. Sanjay Dutt had strongly refuted this story and threatened to sue Karanjia & Co, the owners of the Cine Blitz magazine which had first carried it.[8][9]

1. ^ Parineeta (1953)
2. ^ Sankoch (1976)
3. ^ Darmiyaan (1997)
4. ^ Prem Aggan (1998)
5. ^ Phule Phule Dhole Dhole - Rabindranath Tagore
6. ^ Raja Mere Tere Liye (Aap Ki Khatir, 1977)
7. ^ A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Louis Armstrong
8. ^ India Today - Eye-catchers - October 15, 1982
9. ^ Zameen Aasman (1984)