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Kanchanjungha, 1962 |
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Production: N.C.A. Productions |
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Story, Screenplay, Music and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Photography: Subrata Mitra |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Art Direction: Bansi Chandragupta |
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Sound: Durgadas Mitra |
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Duration: 102 mins |
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Date of release in India: 11th May, 1962. Colour |
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Manisha looks disapprovingly at Mr. Banerjee, chosen to be her husband by her father. |
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| Unexpectedly listening to an unknown bird call, the bird-loving Jagadish follows the sound |
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| A wealthy family of Calcutta's industrial bourgeoisie is vacationing in Darjeeling, at the foot of Mt. Kanchanjungha, the third highest peak of the Himalayas. |
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Cast: Chhabi Biswas (Indranath Choudhury), Anil Chatterjee (Anil), Karuna Banerjee (Labanya), Anuva Gupta (Anima), Subrata Sen (Shankar), Indrani Singh (Tuklu), Alokananda Roy (Manisha), Arun Mukherjee (Ashok), N. Viswanathan (Mr. Banerjee), Pahari Sanyal (Jagadish), Vidya Sinha (Lily). |
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| The jobless Ashok feels smart enough to face Indranath, the chairman of five companies. |
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The family members are dominated by the figure of the father, Indranath, who expects all of them to obey his will. Several long walks, embellished by long conversations, sow various seeds of crisis into the family's midst: for example, a couple breaks up when the younger daughter rejects the staid, respectable engineer her father wants her to marry. Instead, she seems attracted to Ashok, a young student of modest means who has the nerve to refuse the job that the elderly Indranath offers him.
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| No member of the family ultimately came to meet the autocratic father. Only the beggar child sings the final song of liberty from the oppressing autocracy. |
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| Contributed by DKB and AKD |
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