15 Park Avenue

15, Park Avenue
15, Park Avenue
	Kanwaljeet Singh
Cinematography	Hemant Chaturvedi
Edited by	Rabiranjan Maitra
Release date	27 October 2005 (London);
Running time	116 minutes
Language	English

15 Park Avenue is a 2005 English-language Indian film directed by

Kanwaljeet Singh.It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English

.

Plot

30-something Mitali aka Meethi (

Kanwaljeet Singh) on hold, in Meethi's imaginary world both the older women are holding her in the house and away from her husband and children against her will. She imagines her family to be living at the non-existent 15 Park Avenue in Kolkata

.

After Meethi has a severe seizure, her case is taken up by a new doctor Kunal Barua (Dhritiman Chatterjee). While discussing her sister's case with the new doctor, Anu reveals that though Meethi had dormant schizophrenic traits since childhood, she led a very normal life until her early 20s, before a traumatic experience in the course of her job as a journalist made her withdraw from the outer world. Her fiancé, unable to deal with the emotional upheaval caused by the incidence, broke off the engagement. On the doctor's advice, Anu takes both women on a vacation to Bhutan, where they are spotted by Joydeep, now married with two children. In her present state, Meethi does not recognize Joydeep as the same man she is married to in her imagination, and befriends him. When Joydeep learns of Meethi's worsened condition and her imaginary world, he offers to help her locate the elusive family home - 15 Park Avenue.

Back in Kolkata, Joydeep drives her down to the part of the city where she believes her house and her family are. In a surrealistic climax, Meethi finally locates the house and finds her husband Jojo (as she fondly calls him) and her five children waiting for her return. She walks into the house, reunited with her 'real' family and is never seen again.

Cast

Shabana Azmi as Anjali
Konkona Sen Sharma as Meethi
Soumitra Chatterjee as Meethi's father
Waheeda Rehman as Meethi's and Anjali's mother
Rahul Bose as Joydeep Roy
Dhritiman Chaterji
as Dr. Kunal Barua
Kanwaljit Singh as Anjali's colleague and boyfriend
Shefali Shah as Lakshmi, Joydeep's wife
Suranjana Dasgupta as Madwoman on the street
Dipavali Mehta as Child Meethi
Sunil Mukherjee as Witchdoctor

References

^ "This week's screenings". Retrieved 6 July 2020 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.

External links

15 Park Avenue at
IMDb

[1] "This week's screenings". Retrieved 6 July 2020 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.

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