"Actor: Promode Ganguly"

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  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.