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Agantuk (lit. 'Guest'; known by its English title The Stranger) is a 1991 Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. [1] Notable for being Ray's last film, it was based on one of his own short stories, Atithi.
Mar 18, 2018 · And yet, very few people know that this film is actually based on what can best be described as a children’s story, written by Ray himself. In 1992, merely a few months before Satyajit Ray passed away, the legendary director gave us Agantuk (The Stranger).
- Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
- It Felt Like Manmohan Was A Character Ray Created Based on Himself
- Through Manmohan, Ray Critiqued Religion and God
- Agantuk Is Ray’s Legacy
Manmohan tells him, “You know nothing about me, but unfortunately, there’s no easy way of determining who I am”. “Why not?” Sudhindra asks, but before he can finish speaking, Manmohan lightly tosses his passport at him, having correctly deduced that Sudhindra is burning to see it. However, Manmohan himself coldly admits that “this proves nothing . ...
He returned to Calcutta to become a graphic designer instead before his own wanderlust took him first to Jean Renoir and then to Bibhutibhusan Bannerjee, who had published a sublime novel called Pather Panchalia few years ago. And the rest, to repeat an old cliché, is history! In a later scene, Manmohan is being grilled by Sudhindra’s stern lawyer ...
There are some final story beats in the end where the Boses find out that Manmohan left his inheritance to Anila before leaving their home, but they are less interesting than that incredible climactic dance in which Santhal women sing a mesmerising rustic song while dancing in time to the beat produced by Santhal men on their primitive instruments....
Jun 7, 2019 · Agantuk is set during the famous Durga Puja celebrations, when Anila Bose (Shankar), the matriarch of an upper-class nuclear family in Kolkata receives a letter from a man claiming to be her uncle who left home when she was an infant, the letter announcing his arrival and stay at her house for a week.
Jul 4, 2020 · The film Bengali Bhadralok Ray-lovers dislike the most is his last work, Agantuk. I loved it when I saw it first, as an 8-year-old who watched a near-complete Ray retrospective late nights on Doordarshan the year he passed.
Anila’s husband is suspicious of the stranger. Driven by his suspicions, the family suspects that he might be an impostor who has come to claim the inheritance. So various kinds of tests are devised to find out the truth. The husband invites a lawyer friend to probe him.
Mar 24, 2023 · Satyajit Ray’s final film once more explores the bonds and battles of family life. Announced only by a single letter, the arrival of the long-lost, globetrotting great-uncle of Anila after 35 years is a shock to all in her Calcutta home.
