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• Abhijan | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £20.24   |  Saving you £-0.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Abhijan was Satyajit Ray's most popular film in Bengal: a ""conscious"" effort to communicate with a wider audience. The project was originally conceived by his friends and Ray stepped in when they panicked at the prospect of directing. Ray's mastery turned a starkly conventional plot into a subtly nuanced story which topped the Bengali box office for months. Set on the Bihar-Bengal border where Marwari businessmen - a powerful Hindi-dialect community of entrepreneurs much disl

• The Stranger | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £10.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (18.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Stranger (Agantuk) sees Anila receiving a letter from a man claiming to be her uncle a man who disappeared 35 years prior. He turns up at her family home professing to be an anthropologist a globally seasoned traveller en route from the United States to Australia. The family are suspicious of the stranger believing him to be an imposter with a financial scam to sell. After a grilling from the family's lawyer he leaves as unexpectedly as he arrives leaving behind a stunned family and some very insightful observations. Widely regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema and the last of the Bengali renaissance movement begun at the start of the 19th century Satyajit Ray was a giant of Indian cinema. Directing 37 films during his lifetime he was also a critically lauded writer publisher illustrator graphic designer and film critic... as well as recipient of more than 30 Indian National Films Awards a winner of numerous international film festivals - including Berlin Venice and Cannes - and an honorary Academy Award recipient in 1992.

• Naya Daur | DVD | (06/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Naya Daur is a story of two friends Shankar (Dilip Kumar) a tongawala and Krishna (Ajit) the wood-cutter living in a happy and peaceful village. It is a story of how the two friends become foes due to a chain of events that start with the both of them falling in love with the same girl Rajni (Vyjantimala). Naya Daur is a story of Kundan (Jeevan) a city-bred greedy son of the loval timber merchant who introduces new technology and machinery in an attempt to make quicker and bigger profits with no regard for the lives of the local farming tongawala and the wood-cutters community. From various incidents arise the emotional and economic conflicts that provide emotional upheavals and the moral of the film that it is wrong to misuse the immense potentialities of the machine to create prosperity by making it create money for the sake of a few and generate unhappiness and misery for thousands.