Bari thekey paliye videorecording Director, Ritwik Kumar Ghatak

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Classics by Ritwik kumar Ghatak ; Tapan SinhaPublication details: Kolkata Shradha Home Video ©2009Description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) sd., b&w 4 3/4 inSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 BA
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Bari Theke Paliye is a 1958 coming-of-age Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak. The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta. Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, i.e. Kolkata till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He gets to know the dialectics of life in the city of joy, love and hate, honesty and dishonesty. He meets the small and loving girl Mini and her family, folk singers, street hawkers, footpath magicians, beggars, thieves. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person he realises that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.
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  • Director, Ritwik Kumar Ghatak ; writers, Shibram Chakraborty, Ritwik Ghatak ; music, Salila Caudhurī ; production, L & B Films International.
Cast: Param Bharak Lahiri, Padmadevi, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Kali Bannerje.Summary:
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Based on a novel by Shibram Chakraborty.

Bari Theke Paliye is a 1958 coming-of-age Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak. The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta. Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, i.e. Kolkata till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He gets to know the dialectics of life in the city of joy, love and hate, honesty and dishonesty. He meets the small and loving girl Mini and her family, folk singers, street hawkers, footpath magicians, beggars, thieves. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person he realises that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.

Director, Ritwik Kumar Ghatak ; writers, Shibram Chakraborty, Ritwik Ghatak ; music, Salila Caudhurī ; production, L & B Films International.

Param Bharak Lahiri, Padmadevi, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Kali Bannerje.

DVD; NTSC

In Bengali with English subtitles

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