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The Home and the World (1985)

★ 7.3/10 140 min Drama India BN
Director: Satyajit Ray
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TRADITION VERSUS MODERNISM

Description

When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.

Top Cast

Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee Sandip Mukherjee
Victor Banerjee
Victor Banerjee Nikhilesh Choudhury
Swatilekha Sengupta
Swatilekha Sengupta Bimala Choudhury
Gopa Aich
Gopa Aich The Sister-in-Law
Jennifer Kendal
Jennifer Kendal Miss Gilby
Manoj Mitra
Manoj Mitra Headmaster
Bimal Chatterjee Kulada
Indrapramit Roy Amulya

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