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Production: Promod Lahiri |
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Screenplay and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Based on a short story by Parasuram (Rajsekhar Basu) |
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Music: Ravi Shankar |
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Photography: Subrata Mitra |
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Art Director: Bansi Chandragupta |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Sound: Durgadas Mitra |
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Duration: 95 mins |
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Date of release in India: 17th January, 1958. B&W |
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The rich Paresh, angered by listening to a
merchant’s proposal for selling him the
formula of manufacturing gold from iron
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| The Story |
| In this satirical film, Paresh, an unimportant clerk at a bank, sees his life transformed one day when a neighbour child shows him a stone which he claims is capable of instantly changing any piece of metal into gold. Incredulous at first, Paresh becomes convinced by a demonstration of the stone's power and manages to make off with it. Soon he is wealthy and takes pains to preserve the secret of his riches until, drunkenly loquacious, he reveals it during a party at the home of an industrial magnate. The industrialist covets the stone and demands to be let in on its magic formula. This causes a series of calamities that make Paresh regret his acquisition. |
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The bank clerk, now rich by turning iron into
gold, recites dialogue from the mythological
plays in which he appeared in his youth. His
secretary pretends
to be enjoying. |
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Cast: Tulsi Chakravarty (Paresh Chandra Dutta), Ranibala (Paresh's wife), Kali Banerjee (Priyotosh Henry Biswas), Gangapada Bose (Kachalu), Haridhan Mukherjee (Inspector Chatterjee), Jahar Roy (Bhajahari), Bireswar Sen (Police officer), Moni Srimani (Dr. Nandi), Chhabi Biswas, Jahar Ganguly, Pahari Sanyal, Kamal Mitra, Nitish Mukherjee, Subodh Ganguly, Tulsi Lahiri, Amar Mullick (Male guests at cocktail party), Chandrabati Devi, Renuka Roy, Bharati Devi (Female guests at cocktail party). |
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Paresh, visibly embarrassed after the shocking cocktail party, is trying hard to recover from the
shock of what he had disclosed after getting drunk. |
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