Chhabi Biswas, Padmadevi, Pinaki Sengupta

Biswambhar Roy is a zamindar (landlord) and the last of his kind. With the title, he has none of the perquisites, inheriting diminishing lands that are being eroded by the neighbouring river. But he m...( read more  read more... )ust maintain the lifestyle of his heritage. This ostentation is most apparent in the grandest room of his mansion, the music room. Here he inports the finest musicians and dancers to perform, and invites the area's most important commoners. His wife's entreaties to control spending are ignored, and the puberty party he throws for his son bring him down to the last few sacks of family jewels. Then, struck by tragedy, he locks the music room and slips into lethargy - until a final grand soiree consumes the last of his funds.

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Directed by: Satyajit Ray

Release Date: August 1, 1958

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  • April 15, 2009
    I don't get why this film is so highly regarded among Ray's other work. Sure it might be the most exquisitely shot film by Ray thus far. The use of mirrors was pretty clever. I don't think Ray's portrayal of the new wealthy class was fair, in fact the protagonist doesn't come off...( read more) as a more sympathetic character than the rich and uncultured neighbor he despises.
  • September 18, 2008
    sublime!!! decadence+amazing music&dance <3
  • March 20, 2008
    Ray's underrated masterpiece.
  • June 15, 2007
    Great work here by director Satyajit Ray. I felt as if the images and music of the film were seducing me into a pleasent lull. The scene in which the bearded man's group is playing in the music room is truly haunting. This is a film you don't forget easily, it will stay with you ...( read more)well after the film is over. I loved it.

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