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Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Actors: Simon Chambers, Shahanara Begum, Hushnara Begum
Synopsis: Two sisters living in England whose family have raised them in the traditions of their native Bangladesh have very different perspectives on the issue of arranged marriage in this documentary from filmmaker Simon Chambers. Shahanara Begum is in her early 20's and has embraced life in the West with Read More
Crew: Book Author
Actors: Lily Chakraborty, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Tota Raychaudhuri, Aishwarya Rai, Raima Sen
Synopsis: Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh directs the costume melodrama Chokher Bali: A Passion Play, based on the 1902 novel by Rabindranath Tagore. Set in the early 1900s, the film draws parallels between the British colonization of Bengal and the domestic situation of a Calcutta household. Read More
Actors: Robert Langton-Lloyd, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bruce Myers, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn, Georges Corraface
Synopsis: Director Peter Brook collaborates with writer Jean-Claude Carriére for this screen adaptation of the epic, 100,000-stanza Sanskrit poem tracing mankind's quest for universal truth as explored through the ongoing conflict between two warring families - the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Originally a Read More
Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Swatilekha Chatterjee, Jennifer Kapoor
Synopsis: Released in India as Ghare Baire, Home and the World offers a rare collaboration between that country's top director Satyajit Ray and versatile Indian film-personality Victor Banerjee. The latter plays a well-educated Hindu living in colonial East Bengal in 1908. When British governor-general Lord Read More
Crew: Short Story Author
Synopsis: A poor young orphan boy runs off and joins a traveling opera company. He is adopted by a wealthy family and is promised to their daughter in marriage, and for a while the boys seems happy to marry the girl, but he runs away again when he hears the song of riverboat singers. He is content to listen Read More
Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee
Synopsis: This film by Satyajit Ray, India's most renowned filmmaker, tells the story of Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee), a woman in late 19th-century Calcutta. She is neglected by her busy husband, Bhupati (Shailen Mukherjee), a politically active newspaper publisher. When Bhupati's younger cousin Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Short Story Author
Actors: Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee
Synopsis: The "third daughter" in this excellent, intended trilogy by acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray got axed in the final cut when Ray decided to keep his film at its current 116 minutes. The first story in the set, both based on tales by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore is titled "The Read More
Actors: Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore
Synopsis: Director Satyajit Ray adapted his script for Devi from the collected works of Indian authors Prabhatkumar Mukherjee and Rabinranath Tagore. The teen-aged title character Doyamoyee, played by Sharmila Tagore, may not be a "goddess" at all, but try telling that to Kalikinkar Roy (Chhabi Biswas), her Read More
Synopsis: Kabuliwala was adapted from a story by Indian novelist Rabindranath Tagores. The central character is a farmer who hopes to strike it rich in the big city. Forced to leave his daughter behind, the hero all but adopts the offspring of a renowned poet. Sentenced to jail for 10 years for resorting to Read More
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