FR #654 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | India | Bengali
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Satyajit Ray, Upendra Kishore Raychowdhuri
Cast
Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Plot
Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.
A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.
FR #970 | Movie | Musical, Drama | India | Bengali, English
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Tarashankar Banerjee, Satyajit Ray, Santi P. Choudhury
Cast
Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Padmadevi
Plot
Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
FR #1199 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali, Kannada
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Mani Shankar Mukherjee, Satyajit Ray
Cast
Pradip Mukherjee, Rafique Ahmed, S. Bagchi
Plot
A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.
This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares, where he (along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly) goes for a holiday. But the theft of a priceless deity...
As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.
FR #1702 | Movie | Drama | India | English, Bengali
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore
Cast
Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Sengupta
Plot
When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her o...
A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his t...
FR #2434 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | India | Hindi
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Munshi Premchand, Amrit Rai, Satyajit Ray
Cast
Om Puri, Smita Patil, Mohan Agashe
Plot
Untouchable shoemender Dukhi comes to the Brahmin's and asks him to arrange his daughter's engagement. The Brahmin belongs to a higher caste. He wants Dukhi to work for him (and for free) before agreeing... A plea against the indi...
In this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unh...
Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.
