Mahanayika is a 2016 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Saikat Bhakat, and starring Rituparna Sengupta, Indraneil Sengupta, Soumitra Chatterjee, and Saheb Chatterjee.
Plot
Shakuntala Sen (Rituparna Sengupta) is the princess of the glamour world. Her lover Aniruddha Mukherjee (Saheb Chatterjee) is a hero. Aniruddha’s father Arindam (Soumitra Chatterjee) is the biggest producer of the film world. Shakuntala’s would be father in law wants a hold on her career. Somehow Shakuntala agrees when she counts it as a question of stability of her future and decides to marry Aniruddha.
But a new crisis arises when detective officer Priyabrato Roy (Indraneil Sengupta) arrives in her life to exhume the black incidents from her past. She feels victimized and exploited by Priyobrata as he goes on revealing some bitter truths and dark secrets to her. We even see her to go to bed with Priyabrato to settle everything. But at the end, we realise that Priyabrato doesn’t exist in real but as her conscience that reminds her of her past relationships and how Rajat’s love was unrequited by her. By this time, she has been sufficiently panged to break relation with Mukherjee family, only to return to work and focus on career once again.
Cast
Rituparna Sengupta as Shakuntala Sen
Indraneil Sengupta as Priyabrato Roy
Soumitra Chatterjee as Arindam Mukherjee
Saheb Chatterjee as Aniruddha Mukherjee
Chandan Sen
Sudipa Basu
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