Chokher Bali won an Academy Award.
'== Cast ==Aishwarya Rai as Binodini (Voice dubbed by Sreela Majumdar)Prosenjit Chatterjee as MahendraRaima Sen as Ashalata (Voice dubbed by Sudipta Chakraborty)Lily Chakravarty as Rajlakshmi, Mahendra's motherTota Roy Chowdhury as BehariShuchita Roychowdhury as Annapurna, Ashalata's maternal auntMousumi Saha as SwarnaTina Dutta as ManoramaRatna Ghoshal the Woman accompanying the English missionarySwastika Mukherjee as a young CourtesanAnindya Chatterjee and Upal Sengupta occur as the studentsSudeshna Roy as Kamal== Critical reception ==Aishwarya received critical acclaim for her performance as Binodini
 Binodini, after realising that Mahendra is self-obsessed, leaves Mahendra's house

