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• 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.

• The Satyjit Ray Collection Vol.2 | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Satyajit Ray's artistic legacy is one of the most formidable in all of film history. Exceptionally versatile his films covered almost every conceivable genre winning him nearly every major cinema award including an Oscar for lifetime achievement. Titles Comprise: Kapurush (a.k.a The Coward) (1965): Stranded in a small town screenwriter Amitabha Roy is astonished to encounter a former lover who is now married to the owner of a tea plantation. Recalling his inability to commit to her and the relationship's resultant breakdown Roy decides to make amends for the past. Mahapurush (a.k.a The Holy Man) (1965): Ray's rarely-seen gem is a comedy-drama in which a gullible and religiously devout retiree is completely taken in by a bogus holy man and enlists the charlatan's help in finding his daughter a husband. But she is being courted by a young man who determines to expose the fraudster. Joi Baba Felunath (1978): Set in the holy city of Benares where Ray had shot Aparajito over 20 years previously this adventure story adapted from Ray's own novel stars Soumitra Chatterjee as a detective investigating the theft of a priceless gold icon.