Art Direction
Based on a story written by renowned Indian Bengali writer Shirshendu Mukhopaday, an artist's fascination with a circus performer who devours live snakes and chicken turns into obsession leading him to marry her just to learn her tricks but it costs him peace and poise.
Producer
A gullible man faces strange situations on his quest fo find an elephant in order to keep a promise he made with a little girl.
Art Direction
Feluda is called to Gosaipur by Jiban Mallick, the son of the local Zamindar Shyamlal Mallick to investigate a threat of his father's life. Everyone in the village knows that father and the son are at loggerheads. Shyamlal is also an eccentric who eschews anything modern. Then, instead of Syamlal, his son Jiban Mallick is killed and the wealth of Mallick's looted. Oddly though, the dead body of Jiban Mallick vanishes, only to reappear again. Feluda works this out with a mixture of investigating skills and deception.
Art Direction
Gandharva Kumar's arrival disrupts the festival mood of Durga Puja at Ratanlal Babu's house. He captivates the grandchildren of Ratanlal — Babu, Habul, and Tinni — with his magic tricks. Gandharva Kumar then reveals a long-forgotten secret wherein he claims to be heir to the family property of Ratanlal Babu. This creates shock in the entire family and casts a gloom, resulting in dramatic incidents.
Art Direction
A well-off Indian 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 travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
Production Design
A well-off Indian 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 travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
Production Design
When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son (Soumitra Chatterjee) who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
Production Design
Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.
Art Direction
The film presents the life and work of the writer Sukumar Ray, Satyajit Ray's father. Ray made this film as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth.
Production Design
Bimala recuerda los hechos que cambiaron su visión del mundo. Su marido, un terrateniente educado en Occidente, rico y culto, desafíando la tradición, decidió educarla y hacerla salir del ancestral aislamiento propio de las mujeres casadas de la época, para consternación de sus parientes más conservadores. Así, Bimala, que asistía a las reuniones de su marido con un amigo y líder de la rebelión contra los británicos, acabó adhiriéndose a la causa de la independencia.
Art Direction
When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.
Art Direction
Un intenso drama rural y un durísimo alegato contra la explotación basada en el sistema de castas que, irónicamente, financiaría la televisión nacional india, Doordarshan.
Art Direction
El detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) suele pasar las vacaciones en la ciudad santa de Benares acompañado de su primo y un amigo. El robo de una imagen, de valor incalculable, de Lord Ganesh (el dios elefante) lo obliga a emprender una investigación. Feluda sospecha de Maganlal Meghraj (Utpal Dutt), un comerciante despiadado. Pero hay más sospechosos, como un artesano inocente brutalmente asesinado, un sombrío "hombre santo" y un niño (y su abuelo) al que le gusta la aventura, y que adora las películas de crimen y de suspense...
Assistant Art Director
Ambientada en la India en 1856. Mientras se producen en la India los primeros levantamientos contra el Imperio Británico, se desarrolla una partida de ajedrez entre dos hombres de clase alta. Uno de los films más alabados de Satyajit Ray.
Art Direction
Un parapsicólogo descubre que los dibujos del niño Mukul representan escenas de una vida anterior: muestran los hechos ocurridos en una fortaleza, donde el padre del niño había trabajado como tallador de piedras preciosas. Decide, entonces, viajar con el niño por diversos lugares de Rajastan, con la esperanza de encontrar la fortaleza. Unos bandidos que se enteran del extraño caso a través de los periódicos, secuestran al niño. Entonces el detective Feluda y su ayudante Tapesh serán contratados para rescatarlo.
