| Antareen | |
| Director: | Mrinal Sen |
| Producer: | NFDC Doordarshan |
| Based On: | Baadsahat ka Khatma (End of Kingship) |
| Starring: | Anjan Dutt Dimple Kapadia Tathagata Sanyal |
| Music: | Sashi Anand |
| Cinematography: | Sashi Anand |
| Runtime: | 91 minutes |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Bengali |
Antareen (The Confined) is a 1993 Bengali-language Indian film directed by Mrinal Sen. Although based on the 1950 Saadat Hasan Manto story Badshahat Ka Khatimah, the screenplay has a different ending. It stars Anjan Dutt and Dimple Kapadia.[1] [2] Antareen was the first non-Hindi project Kapadia took part in since Vikram (1986). She played a woman caught in a loveless marriage. Insisting on playing her part spontaneously, Kapadia refused to enroll in a crash-course in Bengali as she wrongly felt that she would be able to speak it convincingly. Her voice was eventually dubbed by actor Anushua Majumdar, something Kapadia was unhappy with.[3]
At the 1993 National Film Award, it was awarded the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.[4]
A young writer (Anjan Dutta), seeking inspiration, is living alone in a friend's old mansion in Calcutta. One night he starts talking to a stranger (Dimple Kapadia) over the phone. The conversation soon develops into a relationship as details of their lives are revealed. They chance met on a train, when Dimple was able to recognize him from his voice and way of talking, just as she reboarded the train at a way side station.[5]