Ek Din Pratidin

Ek Din Pratidin
Ek Din Pratidin DVD cover
Directed byMrinal Sen
Written byMrinal Sen (writer)
Amalendu Chakraborty (novel)
StarringMamata Shankar
Gita Sen
Sreela Majumdar
Satya Bandhyopadhyay
CinematographyK. K. Mahajan
Edited byGangadhar Naskar
Music byB.V. Karanth
Production
company
Mrinal Sen Productions
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Ek Din Pratidin (Bengali: এক দিন প্রতিদিন, lit: "A Day Like Any Other," English title: "And Quiet Rolls the Dawn") is a 1979 Bengali drama film directed by Mrinal Sen, who also wrote the screenplay based on an Amalendu Chakraborty novel. Set in contemporary India, the film follows the trauma experienced by a family when the breadwinning daughter fails to return from work. The film spans the period of one evening and night.

The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali and the National Film Award for Best Direction. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.