Trishna

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Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 2011
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Runtime: 117
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Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writing by: Thomas Hardy – novel (Tess of the d'Urbervilles)

Produced by: Jessica Ask – co-producer
Sunil Bohra – producer
Alice Dawson – line producer
Phil Hunt – executive producer
Anurag Kashyap – co-producer
Guneet Monga – co-producer
Melissa Parmenter – producer
Compton Ross – executive producer
Elliot Ross – associate producer
Fenella Ross – associate producer
Shail Shah – executive producer
Meraj Shaikh – line producer: India
Anthony Wilcox – co-producer
Michael Winterbottom – producer

Cast: Freida Pinto – Trishna
Anurag Kashyap – Himself
Riz Ahmed – Jay
Kalki Koechlin – Herself
Roshan Seth – Jay's father
Harish Khanna – Vijay
Neet Mohan – Sandeep
Aakash Dahiya – Avit

Music: Amit Trivedi Shigeru Umebayashi
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Plot Outline:

The story of the tragic relationship between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.


Plot: Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.