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Nayak (The Hero), 1966 |
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Arindam, the film star |
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Production: R.D. Bansal & Co. |
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Story,Screenplay, Music and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Photography: Subrata Mitra |
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Art Direction: Bansi Chandragupta |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Sound: Nripen Paul, Atul Chatterjee, Sujit Sarkar |
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Duration: 120 mins |
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Date of release in India: 6th May, 1966. B&W |
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Cast: Uttam Kumar (Arindam Mukherjee), Sharmila Tagore (Aditi Sen Gupta), Bireswar Sen (Mukunda Lahiri), Somen Bose (Shankar), Nirmal Ghosh (Jyoti), Premangsu Bose (Biresh), Sumita Sanyal (Promila), Ranjit Sen (Mr. Bose), Bharati Devi (Manorama, his wife), Lali Chowdhury (Bulbul, his daughter), Kamu Mukherjee (Pritish Sarkar), Susmita Mukherjee (Sefalika, his wife), Hiralal (Kamal Mitra), Jogesh Chatterjee (Aghore, elderly journalist), Satya Banerjee (Swamiji), Gopal Dey (Conductor). |
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| Awards |
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Special Jury Award, Berlin Film Festival, 1966 |
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Unicrit Award, Berlin Film Festival , 1966 |
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Award for Best Direction, New Delhi, 1966 |
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| The film star starts confessing his secret
fears and anxieties to the young journalist |
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The young journalist introduces herself by
showing the Bengali magazine she edits
to
the film star |
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| The Story |
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| When all the flights are booked, Arindam, a star of Bengali films, is forced to take the train from Calcutta to New Delhi in order to receive an award. |
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| The hero resolves to join films in front of the blazing pyre of his mentor,who was against cinema. |
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Habituated to admiring crowds around him, it is a young journalist, Aditi, who engages his attention. Lucidly, and critical of the function of a star, she interrogates him and compels him to re-examine his life. Through the bond that develops between them, the hero reviews his actor's life, his moments of strength and moments of crisis, and is again stricken by doubt. In the end, the journalist chooses to suppress the confidences the hero has revealed in order to allow him to preserve his public image. |
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| Contributed by DKB and AKD |
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