(Top) Aparna Sen with daughter Konkona Sen Sharma at 89 Cinemas; Shabana Azmi and Nana Patekar at the same venue; (right) Roopa Ganguly with friends at the B.E.D. party. Pictures by Aranya Sen

The journey that Aparna Sen began last winter on the windy valleys of Paro in Bhutan ? in search of an address that never existed ? ended at 89 Cinemas on Friday. The film is Sen?s third English project after 36 Chowringhee Lane and Mr & Mrs Iyer.

Starring Shabana Azmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rahul Bose, Waheeda Rehman, Dhritiman Chatterji, Soumitra Chatterjee, Kanwaljit Singh and Shefali Shah, 15 Park Avenue was released in the city with a star-studded premiere at the Swabhumi multiplex.

With faces new and veteran, plus a sprinkling of Bollywood stars, 15 Park Avenue explores a schizophrenic girl?s (Konkona) make-belief world, where she lives with her husband (Rahul Bose) and five children.

A caring but domineering sister, a vulnerable mother and a former fiancee who walks into her life for a second time, form Meethi?s physical world, which always threatens to disrupt her fantasies.

The Friday premiere of 15 Park Avenue, produced by Bipin Vohra, found the Calcutta cast and crew turning up in full force. Missing in action were the out-station actors ? except Shabana, who plays Konkona?s elder half-sister and who flew in from Mumbai to add glamour to the event.

Nana Patekar, in town to shoot for Goutam Ghose?s Yatra, dropped in to catch the show with his Ab Tak Chhappan co-actor Nakul Vaid.

The screening was also attended by MP Mohammad Salim, Sandip Ray, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Shuvaprasanna, Ranjit Mullick and daughter Koel, Harsh and Madhu Neotia, Sohag Sen, Abhik Mukhopadhyay, and several TV actors including Deboleena Dutta and Arunima Ghosh.

?We have made the film with deep passion and love and I think it is the best of Aparna Sen,? said Shabana Azmi, before walking in for the screening.

The premiere was followed by a cocktails-and-dinner party hosted by producer Vohra and director Sen at B.E.D. Among those spotted at the do were Roopa Ganguly, Piu Sarkar and Kushal Chakra-borty.