Soundtrack: Ali Akbar Khan

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 James Ivory

Cast Shashi Kapoor · Leela Naidu · Durga Khote · Achala Sachdev

Plot A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a...

Direction Ritwik Ghatak

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Ganga Pada Basu · Satindra Bhattacharya · Tulsi Chakraborty

Plot The plot of Ajantrik (Pathetic Fallacy) revolves around Bimal and his battered taxi, an old Chevrolet, he calls Jagaddal. Because he treats his car as a living being, many consider...

Direction Ritwik Ghatak

Cast Nikhil Banerjee · Indranil Bhattacharya · Annapurna Devi · Ali Akbar Khan

Plot Life and disciples of legendary Indian classical musician and teacher, 'Guru' of Pandit Ravishankar, 'Baba' Ustad Alauddin Khan.

Direction Tapan Sinha

Cast Arundhati Devi · Soumitra Chatterjee · Chabi Biswas · Radhamohan Bhattacharya

Plot The film is adapted from a story called Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore. A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals...

Direction James Ivory

Plot Ivory's second documentary, The Sword and The Flute, also dealing with schools of art, grew out of his experience in making Venice: Theme and Variations. Only here, instead of photographing...

Direction Kiumars Derambakhsh

Cast Parviz Fanizadeh · Farshid Farshood · Novin Ghiasi · Parvin Solaymani

Plot A lonely young man draws on his pencil case in his room. His uncle enters the room, and as he goes to fetch his uncle some wine, he sees a...