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15 Park Avenue is a film of genre Drama directed by Aparna Sen with Shabana Azmi
15 Park Avenue (2006)
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Add to a movie list15 Park Avenue is a 2005 National Film Award winning English-language Indian film directed by Aparna Sen.
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30-something Mitali aka Meethi (Konkona Sen Sharma) suffers from Schizophrenia and is taken care of by her much older, divorced sister Anjali aka Anu (Shabana Azmi) and an ageing mother (Waheeda Rehman). Although she was never married in real life, Meethi has created her own alternate reality in her mind in which she got married to her ex-fiancé Joydeep (Rahul Bose) and has five children. While Anu has dedicated her life to taking care of Meethi and her mother, even putting her own relationship with a fellow professor (Kanwaljeet Singh) on hold, in Meethi's imaginary world both the older women are holding her in the house and away from her kids against her will. She imagines her family to be living at the non-existent 15 Park Avenue in Kolkata.Actors
Shabana Azmi
(Anu)
Konkona Sen Sharma
(Meethi)
Soumitra Chatterjee
(Meethi's father)
Waheeda Rehman
(Meethi's and Anjali's mother)
Dhritiman Chatterjee
(Dr. Kunal Barua)
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