Ghare-Baire

original title:
Ghare-Baire
other titles:
The Home and the World
country / year of production:
India / 1984
original length:
141 min. , black/white
premiere:
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Rabindranath Tagore. Ghare-Baire. The Home and the World. 1919.
director:
Satyajit Ray
film script:
Satyajit Ray , Rabindranath Tagore
producer:
cinematographer:
Soumendu Roy
editor:
Dulal Dutta
composer:
Satyajit Ray
cast (role):
Soumitra Chatterjee (Sandip Mukherjee) , Swatilekha Chatterjee (Bimala Choudhury) , Jennifer Kapoor (Miss Gilby ) , Manoj Mitra (Headmaster) , Indrapramit Roy (Amulya) , Soumitra Chatterjee , Swatilekha Chatterjee , Jennifer Kapoor , Manoj Mitra , Indrapramit Roy
more:
plot synopsis:
Nikhilesh Choudhury is a well-educated Hindu living in colonial East Bengal in 1908. When British governor-general Lord Curzon deliberately foments unrest between the Hindus and the Muslims in order to solidify his own power, Choudhury's best friend Sandip Mukherjee tries to organize his countrymen into a rebellion. Choudhury introduces his wife Bimala to his charismatic rebel friend, hoping in this way to test his wife's love. Her attraction to the rebel is but one of the many wedges, both personal and political, driven between the two friends as Hindu/Muslim tensions flare up.
keywords:
colonialism , women during wartime , resistance, opposition , occupation
war:
Britisch-Indian colonial war
literature:
remarks:
Nominated for a "Golden Palm" at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.

In 1942, Satyajit Ray worked as layout artist and art director for a British-run advertising agency. In his spare time he wrote film scenarios, among them an adaptation of Tagore's novel, "Ghare Baire," which producers rejected when Ray refused to make changes. It was only after India's political climate changed that he'd been able to bring the book to the screen.
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