Complete credited cast: | |||
Sharmila Tagore | ... | Aparna | |
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Kaberi Bose | ... | Jaya (as Kaberi Basu) |
Simi Garewal | ... | Duli (as Simi) | |
Soumitra Chatterjee | ... | Ashim (as Soumitra Chattopadhyay) | |
Subhendu Chatterjee | ... | Sanjoy (as Subhendu Chattopadhyay) | |
Rabi Ghosh | ... | Shekhar (as Robi Ghosh) | |
Samit Bhanja | ... | Hari (as Shamit Bhanja) | |
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Pahadi Sanyal | ... | Sadashiv Tripathi |
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Premashish Sen | ... | (as Premashis Sen) |
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Samar Nag | ||
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Khairatilal Lahori | ||
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Dibyendu Chatterjee | ... | (as Shriman Dibyendu Chatterjee) |
Aparna Sen | ... | Hari's former lover |
A group of four middle class workers in India take the week off to have a holiday. When they get to the forest, they meet up with another group and spend their time flirting with women. Well it's more than that. Written by David Gibson <djg6.ukc.ac.uk>
"Aranyer Din Ratri" is an underrated lyrical masterpiece from the great Satyajit Ray. Its structure is one of the most musical of Ray's films, yet it remains one of the most scathing indictments of pompous urban men. A must see. The memory game sequence alone is worth the price of the film.
I feel compelled to respond to Ravenus, who writes: "Simi Garewal's hilariously accented Bengali makes her tribal character a hard act to digest." We must remember that Duli, the character Simi plays, is not a sophisticated woman from Calcutta, but a tribal woman from Palamau, which is 300 miles west of Calcutta. Her accent is perfect for the character.