Author: Satyajit Ray
Sandhya Roy/Soumitra Chatterjee
Director/Composer/Na: Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Angel Digital
Year: 2005
Language: multilingual
Pages: NA
ISBN/UPC (if available): AVDVD 120CE
Description
1942-43 World War II – warplanes flying overhead – a remote little village in Bengal. Young Ganga and his wife Ananga are the only Brahmins, newly settled, in this village of low-caste peasants. Ganga is the Priest cum Doctor cum the only Teacher in the village. Ananga, childless still is a friendly woman. Life on the whole is pleasant. Soon black marketing begins and the war effects start taking its stall on the innocent villagers. What follows is a man-made famine in spite of a good harvest.
The peaceful village life changes for the worse and the villagers specially the women like Chhutki (who succumbs to the advances of the scare-face Jadu) and Ananga (almost raped by an unknown man) suffers the most.
At this point Moti the untouchable woman from Ananga’s village comes to beg for rice and dies on her doorstep. In this darkest hour, Ananga tells her husband of the advent of their first child.
AWARDS:
1. President’s Gold Medal for Music Direction,
New Delhi 1973.
2. Best Regional Film, New Delhi 1973.
3. Golden Bear, Berlin 1974.
4. Golden Hugo, Chicago 1974.
CAST:
Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Babita (Bangladesh), Gobind Chakraborty, Ramesh Chatterjee, Santosh Mitra, Shelly Pal, Chitra Bandhopadhyay
CREDITS:
Producer: Balaka Movies (Sarbani Bhattacharya)
Screenplay & Direction: Satyajit Ray (based on the novel "Asani Sanket" by Bibhutibhushan Banerjee)
Cinematography: Soumendu Roy
Editing: Dulal Dutta
Art Direction: Ashoke Bose
Sound: J. D. Irani, Durgadas Mitra
Music: Satyajit Ray
Year: 1973