query: languages_spoken_or_written preeti ganguly
supports: Baton Baton Mein (Hindi: ) is a 1979 romantic comedy film produced and directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film stars Amol Palekar and Tina Munim in leading roles. David, Pearl Padamsee, Asrani, and Ranjit Choudhary appear in supporting roles. Basu Bhattacharya (19341997) was a Hindi film director, most famous for his 1966 film "Teesri Kasam", starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman (based on the short story "Maare Gaye Gulfam" by Phanishwar Nath 'Renu'), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1967; he also produced "Sparsh" (1985) starring Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah, which won the Filmfare Best Movie Award. The most popular and critically acclaimed film which he directed remains "Avishkaar", starring Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore, which received five stars in the Bollywood Guide "Collections" and Rajesh Khanna received Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1975.
  In 1979, he produced "Sparsh", which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. Bollywood is the sobriquet for India's Hindi language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is more formally referred to as Hindi cinema. The term "Bollywood" is often used by non-Indians as a synecdoche to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; however, Bollywood proper is only a part of the larger Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in many other Indian languages. François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932  21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film "The 400 Blows" came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. He also directed such classics as "Shoot the Piano Player" (1960), "Jules et Jim" (1961), "The Wild Child" (1970), "Two English Girls" (1971), "Day for Night" (1973) and "The Woman Next Door" (1981). Basu Chatterjee (born 10 January 1930) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Through the 1970s and 1980s, he became associated with what came to be known as middle cinema or middle-of-the road cinema, with film makers like Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Bhattacharya, whom he assisted in "Teesri Kasam" (1966). Like them, his films also dealt with light-hearted stories of middle-class families often in urban settings, focussing on marital and love relationships, with exceptions like "Ek Ruka Hua Faisla" (1986) and "Kamla Ki Maut" (1989), which delved into social and moral issues. He is best known for his films "Chhoti Si Baat" (1975), "Chitchor" (1976), "Rajnigandha" (1974), "Piya Ka Ghar" (1972), "Baton Baton Mein" (1979) and "Shaukeen" (1982). Preeti Ganguly ( May 17 , 1953 -- December 2 , 2012 ) was an Indian actress who played several comic roles in Bollywood in the 1970s and 1980s . She was the daughter of veteran Indian actor Ashok Kumar , and part of the Ganguly family . She is best known for her comic role as Freni Sethna , the die - hard Amitabh Bachchan fan in Basu Chatterjee 's Khatta Meetha ( 1978 ) . After she lost some 50 kg , her film roles dwindled and later in 1993 , she started an acting school named after her father , ' Ashok Kumar 's Academy of Dramatic Arts ' in Mumbai , where he also took film appreciation classes . Years later , she appeared in Emraan Hashmi starrer , Aashiq Banaya Aapne ( 2005 ) . Chhoti Si Baat is a 1975 Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film's title means "A Small Matter" in Hindi. Considered one of the best Hindi comedy films of the 1970s, it is a nostalgic favourite for its quirky take on pre-hypercongestion Bombay. The film became a box office hit and also earned Filmfare nominations and a Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Basu Chatterjee. It also established Amol Palekar as having an uncommon comic talent for playing mousy characters, a role he would go on to repeat several times in his career. This movie is based on "School for Scoundrels", a 1960 British Comedy which itself was based on the "Gamesmanship" series of books by Stephen Potter. A synecdoche (; from Greek , "synekdoche", . "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa. A synecdoche is a class of metonymy, often by means of either mentioning a part for the whole or conversely the whole for one of its parts. Examples from common English expressions include "bread and butter" (for "livelihood"), "suits" (for "businesspeople"), and "boots" (for "soldiers") (Pars pro toto), or conversely "America" (for "the United States of America") (Totum pro parte).  Amitabh Harivansh Rai Shrivastava Bachchan (born 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like "Zanjeer" and "Deewaar", and was dubbed India's first "angry young man" for his on-screen roles in Bollywood. Referred to as the "Shahenshah of Bollywood", "Star of the Millennium" or "Big B",
  he has since appeared in over 190 Indian films in a career spanning almost five decades. Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. So total was his dominance on the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director François Truffaut called him a "one-man industry." Maharashtra (Marathi:  pronunciation: , abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's third-largest state by area and is also the world's second-most populous sub-national entity. It has over 112 million inhabitants and its capital, Mumbai, has a population of approximately 18 million. Nagpur is Maharashtra's second capital as well as its winter capital. Maharashtra's business opportunities along with its potential to offer a higher standard of living attract migrants from all over India. Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari:  , "Mnak Hind") or simply Hindi (Devanagari: , "Hind"), is an Indian language and a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. Hindi is one of the official languages of India, and is the "lingua franca" of the Hindi belt languages. Outside India, Hindi is an official language in Fiji, and is a recognised regional language in Mauritius, Suriname, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. Rajnigandha (Hindi: , Translation: Tuberose) is a Hindi movie directed by Basu Chatterjee and released in 1974. It is based on story "Yehi Sach Hai" by noted Hindi writer Manu Bhandari. Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (Hindi:    , or A Pending Decision ) is a 1986 Hindi film, directed by Basu Chatterjee. It is a remake of the Golden Bear winning, American motion picture "12 Angry Men" (1957), which was directed by Sidney Lumet, the film in turn was an adaptation from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. Teesri Kasam ("The Third Vow") is a 1966 Hindi language drama film directed by Basu Bhattacharya. It is based on the short story "Mare Gaye Gulfam" by the Hindi novelist Phanishwarnath Renu. The film stars Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman. The duo Shankar-Jaikishan composed the film's score. The film's cinematography is by Subrata Mitra. Dialogues are by Phanishwarnath Renu and the screenplay by Nabendu Ghosh.
  "Teesri Kasam" is an unconventional film that portrays rural Indian society. It is the story of a naive bullock cart driver who falls in love with a dancer at "nautanki", the popular folk theatre of the Bihar region. The film also deals with the issue of exploitation of women in the performing arts, especially in travelling folk theatre. 
  The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film at the 14th National Film Awards. Piya Ka Ghar (Devanagari:   , Nastaliq:   , translation: "My Beloved's House", 1972) is a Hindi comedy set (mainly) in Mumbai in the 1970s. It is a remake of Raja Thakur's Marathi film "Mumbaicha Javai". It portrays the difficulties of life in India's biggest city during the 1970s in the form of a comic family drama. Chitchor (also transliterated as Chit Chor) is a 1976 Hindi romantic musical film. The film's title means "Heart Stealer" in Hindi. The film is a Rajshri Productions film produced by Tarachand Barjatya. It is based on a Bengali story, "Chittachakor" by Subodh Ghosh.
candidates: english french greek hindi marathi
answer: hindi