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Director:
Satyajit Ray
Writers:
Sunil Gangopadhyay (story)
Satyajit Ray (scenario)
Release Date:
16 January 1970 (India) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
A group of four middle class workers in India take the week off to have a holiday. When they get to the forest... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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A Beautifully Sensitive Rites-Of-Passage Film more

Cast

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Sharmila Tagore ... Aparna
Kaberi Bose ... Jaya
Simi Garewal ... Duli (as Simi Garowal)
Soumitra Chatterjee ... Ashim (as Soumitra Chatterji)
Subhendu Chatterjee ... Sanjoy (as Subhendu Chatterji)
Robi Ghosh ... Shekhar (as Rabi Ghosh)
Samit Bhanja ... Hari
Aparna Sen ... Hari's former lover
Pahadi Sanyal ... Sadashiv Tripathi
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Days and Nights in the Forest (UK) (subtitle) (USA)
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Runtime:
115 min
Country:
India
Language:
Bengali
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:15
Company:
Priya Films more

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23 out of 25 people found the following comment useful:-
A Beautifully Sensitive Rites-Of-Passage Film, 6 May 1999
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Author: Paul Arthur (pnarthur@msn.com) from London, England

Ray excells himself in this wonderfully sensitive rites-of-passage film. A group of friends in their twenties take a short vacation in the countryside together. After some confusion about their accommodation they find themselves staying near to two respectable young women of good family who stimulate their interest. Although the women appear not too interested at first, things change, and they all begin to spend time together. Each of the characters is profoundly different from the others, and it soon becomes clear that they have different goals - and perhaps needs - in life. That does not prevent an extraordinary sexual chemistry from developing which is all the more vivid for being understated and unspoken. The picnic scene where the girls suggest they all play a literary game is replete with poignantly repressed sexuality. As the film develops the four men begin to go their separate ways, but for the two women (and for one especially) the encounter with the men has stimulated feelings it is difficult to ignore. This is a film of extraordinary subtlety and depth. A classic of world cinema by one of the cinema's greatest directors, it deserves much greater recognition.

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