| Teen Kanya (Three Daughters), 1961 |
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President’s Silver Medal (for Samapti), New Delhi, 1961 |
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Golden Boomerang, Melbourne Film Festival (for Samapti and The Postmaster), 1962 |
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Selzhnick’s Golden Laurel, Berlin Film Festival , 1963 |
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Production: Satyajit Ray Productions |
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Screenplay, Music and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Based on three short stories by Rabindranath Tagore |
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Photography: Soumendu Roy |
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Art Direction:Bansi Chandragupta |
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Editing:Dulal Dutta |
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Sound:Durgadas Mitra |
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Duration:The Postmaster – 56 mins, Monihara (The Lost Jewels ) -- 59 mins, Samapti ( The Conclusion ) – 56 mins |
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Date of release in India:5th May 1961. B&W |
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| The little girl, Ratan, reminds the malaria-stricken postmaster to take his daily dosage of Quinine, horribly bitter. |
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| The Postmaster |
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Cast: Anil Chatterjee (Nandalal), Chandana Banerjee (Ratan), Nripati Chatterjee (Bishu,the crazy), Khagen Pathak (Khagen), Gopal Roy (Bilas). |
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| The Story |
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Ratan hopes that the postmaster will teach her reading and writing Bengali. |
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| Newly arrived from Calcutta, Nandalal takes a position as the postmaster of a tiny rural village in Bengal. He has for his servant Ratan, a young orphan girl. She is illiterate, but he teaches her how to read and write. When Nandalal falls ill, Ratan nurses him back to health. Nonetheless, he dreams of returning to Calcutta. He gets ready to leave, oblivious to how attached to him Ratan has become. The narrative concludes with his departure, in which he is forced to confront his misunderstanding of Ratan's feelings when she snubs him. |
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| Monihara (The Lost Jewels) |
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Cast: Kali Banerjee (Phanibhusan Saha), Kanika Majumdar (Manimalika), Kumar Roy (Madhusudan), Gobinda Chakraborty (Schoolmaster and narrator). |
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| The bright light over the river outside can’t reduce the darkness of Phanibhushan’s
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| Near a sumptuous mansion, now abandoned, the village schoolteacher recounts the history with a book holding in his hand to a man seated on the stairs, concealed under a shawl. It seems that the house was formerly inhabited by a man whose wife had a consuming passion for jewels, which led to their ruin. After having listened to the tale, the man points out some errors in it; his authority comes from the fact that he is the husband's ghost. |
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| Samapti (The Conclusion) |
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Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee (Amulya), Aparna Dasgupta (Mrinmoyee), Sita Mukherjee (Jogamaya), Gita Dey (Nistarini), Mihir Chakraborty (Rakhal), Debi Neogy (Haripada), Santosh Dutta(Nirupama's Father) |
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| The Story |
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| A sad and lovelorn Mrinmoyee can’t comprehend why her husband isn’t returning to her in the village. |
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| Returning from Calcutta after passing his exams, Amulya spends a few days with his mother, who has arranged for him to marry the daughter of a respectable family. The son resists and, in order to forestall the marriage, suggests a different bride: Mrinmoyee, a mischievous and contrary adolescent girl whose family has lost their home. The mother finally gives in. After a difficult wedding night, Amulya, instead of facing his new circumstances, hastily goes back to Calcutta. Realizing the nature of the situation, his mother pretends to be sick in order to bring him back for a more responsible reunion. |
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| Contributed by DKB and AKD |
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