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Joi Baba Felunath (1978)
Detective Feluda is interrupted from a vacation in the holy city of Benares to solve the theft of a valuable family idol. |
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Big City, The (1963)
To make ends meet, a traditional Bengali wife takes a job as a sales person, setting off adjustment reactions in the family. |
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Chess Players, The (1977)
Highly allegorical Shatranj Ke Khilar combines a comedy of manners with historical drama, as it examines the 1856 British takeover of India... |
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Devi (1960)
Blending old traditions in contemporary India, Devi examines religious superstition and upper class decadence. |
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Adversary, The (1972)
Pratidwandi depicts contemporary life in Calcutta (early 1970's) in fine fashion, as the protagonist seeks employment ... |
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World of Apu, The (1959)
Compelling final chapter of the Apu trilogy follows the true romantic leaving the intermediate Calcutta University due to lack of funds... |
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Nayak (1966)
Character driven story set on a train about a matinee idol on his way to receive an acting award and begins to tell his story to a reporter. |
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Music Room, The (1958)
Jalsaghar ranks near the top of Satyajit Ray's best work—a profound portrait of a deteriorating aristocrat, left over from colonial British India. |
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Kapurush (1965)
Simply titled "Courage" in the U.S., this short feature reveals a love triangle similar to The Lonely Wife starring two of the same characters. |
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Unvanquished, The (1957)
Picking up Apu's story in Benares, the ten-year old must cope with his father's sickness and death and his over-protective mother before achieving independence. |
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Lonely Wife, The (1964)
Poetically presens a visual treatise about love and creativity while offering a political message about India's early stages of independence fighting |
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Song
of the Road (1955)
First of the magnificent Apu Trilogy, dealing with
Apu's childhood. Portrait of rural life in India that
illustrates Life's transient nature... |
