In Calcutta, India, three neighboring families live in an upper middle-class area. Gurcharan lives in a palatial home with his wife and two beautiful daughters, Lolita and Koyal, who he hopes to marry off. There is Charu Sharma, who lives with her brother and sister-in-law, and who has a wealthy brother, Girish, who lives in Britain. And finally there are the Roys – Navinchandra, a hard-nosed businessman, who will never undertake anything unless there is a high level of profit for him, his son, Shekhar, who he hopes to groom after himself and his quiet, devout wife. Navin realizes Gurcharan’s plight and offers Lolita a job at his office in order to enable the family to survive. Shekhar and Lolita are attracted to each other, but Navin does not approve of this as he wants Shekhar to get married to Gayetri Tatya, the daughter of his wealthy business associate. Chaos descends on these families and Lolita must act quickly or her family will be evicted and face a life of destitution.

Parineeta is Pradeep Sarkar’s directorial debut after 17 years in the advertising business. After seven years and over 1000 television commercials, 15 music videos and a few film songs, he is taking the next step into feature films.

Producers: Vir Chopra , Rajkumar Hirani Screenwriters: Rekha, Vidhu Vinod Chopra Cinematographer: N. Nataraja Subramanian Editor: Hemanti Sarkar Music: Shantanu Moitra Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan, Sanjay Dutt, Diya Mirza