Director: Satyajit Ray; Writer: Satyajit Ray, Shankar; Producer: Jung Bahadur Rana; Cinematographer: Soumendu Roy; Editor: Dulal Dutta; Cast: Barun Chanda, Sharmila Tagore, Paromita Choudhury, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Haradhan Bannerjee, Indira Roy, Promod
Duration: 01:48:08; Aspect Ratio: 1.290:1; Hue: 240.000; Saturation: 0.006; Lightness: 0.230; Volume: 0.184; Cuts per Minute: 15.064; Words per Minute: 41.834
Summary: Story: Shankar's novel.
Ray’s follow-up to
Pratidwandi (1970) sees contemporary Calcutta through the eyes of a dull sales manager in a fan factory. Shyamalendu Chatterjee (Chanda), whose life story is briefly narrated in a voice-over in the beginning, leads a well-off life among Calcutta’s newly rich, apparently untouched by the political turmoil around him. He gets involved in a deal with his corrupt personnel manager, to the disappointment of his sexy sister-in-law (Tagore), but the company rewards him with a promotion. The film’s moral points about the corrosive effects of a social system based on greed are made mainly through a series of markedly symbolic shots, such as the zoom into the telephone wire through which the corrupt deal is being hatched and, at the end, the high-angle shot from above the ceiling fan. The final film in Ray’s Calcutta trilogy would be
Jana Aranya (1975).
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