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Dipankar Dey | ... | ||
Mamata Shankar | ... |
Anila Bose
(as Mamta Shankar)
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Bikram Bhattacharya | ... |
Satyaki Bose
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Utpal Dutt | ... |
Manomohan Mitra
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Dhritiman Chatterjee | ... |
Prithwish Sen Gupta
(as Dhritiman Chatterji)
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Rabi Ghosh | ... |
Ranjan Rakshit
(as Robi Ghosh)
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Subrata Chatterjee | ... |
Chhanda Rakshit
(as Subrata Chatterji)
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Promode Ganguly | ... |
Tridib Mukherjee
(as Pramod Ganguly)
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Ajit Banerjee | ... |
Sital Sarkar
(as Ajit Banerji)
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A well-off 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. Written by Anonymous
This remarkable film is in many ways a self portrait of Satyajit Ray because he was none other than an anthropologist and philosopher in the true sense of playful, childlike wonder. This is the the story of how how a life of curiousity and wonder have to survive in this cruel and foolish world which judges everything in materialistic terms. The philosopher is always and everywhere a stranger,though full of joy, simplicity and wonder at Being which is fervently demonstrated in the 'cosmic magician' sequence. Only those with the child in them alive will understand!