Subir Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Pinaki Sen Gupta, Smaran Ghosal. Directed by Satyajit Ray. A boy named Apu in Bengal, India, grows into manhood over the course of three lushly filmed movies that... more
THE BIG CITY (Mahanagar), set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by the great Satyajit Ray (THE MUSIC ROOM), follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides,... more
This film about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning by Satyajit Ray (THE MUSIC ROOM) is set in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India. It takes place in the gracious home of a... more
With THE MUSIC ROOM, Satyajit Ray (PATHER PANCHALI) brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to his way of... more
Bengal, the mid-19th century: With his son (Soumitra Chatterjee) gone to pursue his studies in Kolkota, a wealthy old landowner (Chhabi Biswas) is seized by the delusion that his dutiful new... more
Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on it's eldest... more
Between the breaking scandal on his bad-boy behavior and his latest project's rotten reviews, dissipated movie star Arindam Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) was glad to be grabbing a Delhi-bound train for an... more