Navratri has started and Durga Maa is here to bless us, while we are all ready to get into the festive spirit with the #pujofeels we thought of making a little watchlist of bengali movies. With the Durga Pooja Holidays the best companion would be movies until you get ready in the evening to go pandal hopping.
- Rajkanya
Rajkanya is a 1965 Bengali film directed by Sunil Bandyopadhyay.
The movie was based on a story and screenplay by legendary film director Ritwik Ghatak. Uttam Kumar, Rina Ghosh, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, and Tarun Kumar portray the main characters.
Darpa, a cunning man, asks Rajkumari to pretend to be Princess Chandralekha so that he can keep all her riches for himself. However, when she realises the truth, she ensures all his plans fail. The movie is entertaining with a gripping story and not to forget a classic!
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2.Aparajito-
Aparajito is a 1956 Indian Bengali-language epic drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy.
It is adapted from the first half of Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee's novel Aparajito. It starts off where the previous film Pather Panchali (1955) ended, with Apu's family moving to Varanasi, and chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college. The movie won 11 international awards, including the Golden Lion and Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, becoming the first ever film to win both.
The movie is a perfect classic from the Ray multiverse.
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Pather Panchali is a 1955 Indian Bengali-language epic drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of West Bengal. It is an adaptation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name, and marked Ray's directorial debut. Featuring Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta, Chunibala Devi and being the first film in The Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali depicts the childhood travails of the protagonist Apu (Subir Banerjee) and his elder sister Durga (Uma Dasgupta) amidst the harsh village life of their poor family.
The movie won India's National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1955, the Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, and several other awards, establishing Ray as one of the country's most distinguished filmmakers. It is often featured in lists of the greatest films ever made.