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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