Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Banerjee, N. Biswanathan, Pahari Sanyal, Arun Mukherjee. Originally produced as a motion picture in India by NCA Productions in 1962. Special features available on DVD include interactive menu of song and scene selection.
Summary:
This film was Satyajit's first original screenplay. It depicts a real time event of 100 minutes on screen, quite ahead of its time. Indranath Choudhuri and his family, a wealthy family of Calcutta's industrial bourgeoisie, are on vacation in Darjeeling, at the foot of Mt. Kanchenjunga, the third highest peak of the Himalayas, The family members are dominated by the father Choudhuri, who expects all of them to obey his will. Several long walks, embellished by long conversations, sow various seeds of crisis in the family's midst, e.g. a couple breaks up when the younger daughter rejects the staid, respectable engineer her father wants her to marry. Instead, she seems attracted to Asok, a young student of modest means who has the nerve to refuse the job offered to him by Choudhuri.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)70855627
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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