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
Considered to be a masterpiece this is an emotionally powerful melodrama about a young woman's struggle to support her refugee family in the post-Partition of Calcutta.
Please wait. Loading...
This site uses cookies.
More details in our privacy policy