Shubho Mahurat is an award-winning Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film is based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple story The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. The phrase "shubho mahurat" is associated with the beginning of shooting for a feature film. The first day of shooting is usually marked by a grand reception, followed by a token shooting or vice-versa. This Miss Marple-esque film began with this event. An NRI producer, Padmini Chowdhury , has come to India to invest in a film. An out-of-work director is assigned the job of direction. The out-of-work... director had a shady past. The witness to his shady past was an aspiring actor, who was subsequently thrown out of the acting circuit. Thereafter, this actor started a catering service for the film unit. The NRI producer insisted on casting a retired actress in a prominent role. The retired actress, a drug addict, subsequently died under mysterious circumstances. The journalist Mallika Sen was the only person present at the time of the death. The suspicion naturally fell on the husband of the actress.
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