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Trishna

Trishna may refer to:

  • Taṇhā, the Buddhist concept of thirst or desire
  • Trishna (Vedic thought), the Vedic concept of thirst or desire
  • Trishna (1978 film), a drama directed and produced by Sippy Films in India
  • Trishna (2009 film), a romance film directed by Pritam Jalan
  • Trishna (2011 film), a film adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and directed by Michael Winterbottom
  • Trishna (TV show), a romantic Indian TV show on Doordarshan
  • Trishna (yacht), a yacht belonging to the Indian Navy
  • For the Bangladeshi conjoined twins see Krishna and Trishna
Trishna (2009 film)

Trishna is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Pritam Jalan .The film is starring Rituparna Sengupta, Angshuman Gupta (finalist in Grasim Mr India 2006) and Arindam Seal. This film was objection for Vulgurity by West Bengal Film Publicity Act that Rituparna Sengupta was showing too much Skimpy, seductive.However, the West Bengal Film Publicity Act rejected the public presentation of some movie posters of Trishna. The West Bengal Film Publicity Act is basically a local body who gives clearance for films to be released in West Bengal only. Such act does not exist in any other Indian States. This movie is a Bengali remake of Bipasha Basu and John Abraham starrer Hindi film " Jism" The Telegraph commented that "Though almost a scene-by-scene copy of John Abraham-Bipasha Basu’s Jism, Pritam Jalan’s Trishna is nothing more than a sleaze fest with Tolly’s leading heroine ‘showing’ the way".

Trishna (1978 film)

Trishna is a 1978 Indian Hindi film directed by Anil Ganguly. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar and Raakhee in lead roles.

Trishna (2011 film)

Trishna is a 2011 British-Swedish-Indian drama film, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom, and starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed. The story is a loose adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It is Winterbottom's third Hardy adaptation, after Jude and The Claim. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2011, and after some further festival appearances it saw its first cinema release in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 9 March 2012.

Trishna (TV series)

Trishna was a 1985 Indian TV show on Doordarshan, roughly based on the idea of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.

The show was aired on Doordarshan in 1985. It was based on the idea of Pride and Prejudice, involving an Indian middle-class family. All the characters of the novel were maintained in the show, with their traits shown exactly as in the book.

As in the novel, the family has five daughters, the second of whom is called Rekha (played by Sangeeta Handa). She is proud, honest and has a stubborn streak in her. She does not think much of those who are pompous. She meets a rich, handsome guy (Tarun Dhanrajgir) at a party, who has go there with his friend and sisters, and is instantly prejudiced against him due to his pride and arrogance. The elder sister falls in love with the friend, whose sisters do not think much of her family and persuade him to jilt her. The story continues in the same mode as Pride and Prejudice, and in the end, all the girls marry in exactly the same fashion as in the novel.

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Trishna (Vedic thought)

Trishna ( Sanskrit: तृष्णा) means – 'thirst' (Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 4.149), 'aspiration' (Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 14.44), 'longing', 'craving' or 'lusty desires' (Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.18), or as तृष्णज् meaning covetous, greedy or thirsting. Trishna is the Fourth Nidana, spiritual love.