Screenplay: Satyajit Ray

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Pinaki Sengupta · Smaran Ghosal

Plot The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the crowded streets and...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Sharmila Tagore · Alok Chakravarty · Swapan Mukherjee

Plot Forced to abandon his education, Apu´s prospects look bleak until fate intervenes in the form of an insane bridegroom. To save the abandoned bride from public disgrace, Apu marries her,...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Uma Das Gupta · Subir Bannerjee

Plot Tells the story of a Bengali family driven by bad fortune. The father, Harihara, is a secular clerk, healer, dreamer and poet. Sabajaya, the mother, works to feed the family...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Anil Chatterjee · Madhabi Mukherjee · Jaya Bhaduri · Haren Chatterjee

Plot Calcutta in the early 1960's. Bhambal supports his wife Arati, his parents, and two children. Money is tight, so Arati goes to work. She's successful and enjoys it, but this...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Madhabi Mukherjee · Sailen Mukherjee · Soumitra Chatterjee · Geetali Roy

Plot Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Babita · Ramesh Mukherjee · Chitra Banerjee

Plot The action, which occurs in a tiny village in 1943, during World War II, is based on the man-made famine that caused the deaths of five million inhabitants of Colonial...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Chabi Biswas · Ganga Pada Basu · Pinaki Sengupta · Kali Sarkar

Plot Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Om Puri · Smita Patil · Mohan Agashe · Gita Siddharth

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Pradip Mukherjee · Satya Bannerjee · Kalyan Chowdhury · Aparna Sen

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Dhritiman Chatterjee · Jayshree Roy · Debraj Roy · Krishna Bose

Plot Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Sanjeev Kumar · Saeed Jaffrey · Amjad Khan · Richard Attenborough

Plot Set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company (Richard Attenborough) has observed that the monarch of Lucknow, which is in his trading region, seems...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Waheeda Rehman · Ruma Guha Thakurta · Gyanesh Mukherjee

Plot Soumitra Chatterjee stars as the rugged driver Narsingh who’s a proud owner of the vintage 1930 Chrysler. He is also very proud of his Rajput birth. The film traces his...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Chandana Banerjee · Nripati Chatterjee · Anil Chatterjee · Khagen Pathak

Plot The title should translate as Three Daughters, since the film originally comprised a trio (171 minutes) of Tagore stories, all touching on the problems of emancipation through women of contrasting...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Subhendu Chatterjee · Samit Bhanja · Robi Ghosh

Plot Four friends from Calcutta city venture out to the forests of Palmau for a holiday excursion in car. They arrive at a little village in the state of Bihar. Not...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Chabi Biswas · Soumitra Chatterjee · Sharmila Tagore · Karuna Bannerjee

Plot The film is set in 1860 at Chandipur, in rural Bengal, India. Doyamoyee and her husband Umaprasad live with his elder brother, his wife and wealthy father, Kalikinkar Roy. Kalikinkar...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Madhabi Mukherjee · Haradhan Bannerjee · Satish Haldar

Plot Roy, a scriptwriter has a breakdown near a tea-estate and he is offered a place to stay by the estate manager at his bungalow. When he reaches there, Roy finds...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Dipankar Dey · Mamata Shankar · Bikram Bhattacharya · Utpal Dutt

Plot An 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...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Uttam Kumar · Sharmila Tagore · Bireswar Sen · Somen Bose

Plot famous film actor Arindam (Uttam Kumar), a star of Bengali films, has been invited to the capital to receive a prestigious award. As all the flights are booked, he is...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Ravi Kiran

Plot This short film is about a bored rich Indian kid who, upon seeing a kid in the garden in front of his house play a flute, immediately engages in a...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Erick Avari · Karuna Bannerjee · Chabi Biswas · Anil Chatterjee

Plot ndranath Chowdhury, chairman of five companies comes to the Darjeeling with his family for a holiday. Labony, Indranath's wife, once a sensitive woman is now resigned to total submission to...