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Language
Bengali
Description
The consequences of partition is felt when the daughter of schoolteacher is seriously ill at a border side village in modern Bangladesh.It's a story of a simple village couple from Bangladesh who comes to Taki for the treatment of their ailing daughter. Their life and struggle has been portrayed in the film.
2) Antarmahal
Language
Bengali
Description
Set in 1878, when Britain controlled India, this film explores the lengths to which superstition and despair will drive a man. Through an aging man and those affected by him, the reality of ruthless obsession and cut-throat desire for power is exposed.
3) Late Ray
Series
Language
Bengali
Description
"The films directed by the great Satyajit Ray in the last ten years of his life have a unique dignity and drama. Three of them are collected here: the fervent Rabindranath Tagore adaptation The Home and the World; the vital An Enemy of the People, based on the Henrik Ibsen play; and the filmmaker's final work, the poignant and philosophical family story The Stranger. They are complex, political, and humane depictions of worlds both corrupt and indescribably...
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