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The Stranger
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Agantuk (; known by its English title The Stranger) is a 1991 Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Notable for being Ray's last film, it was based on one of his own short stories, Atithi. A joint Indo-French production, it received financial backing from companies such as Gérard Depardieu's DD Productions and Canal+.
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7.6A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
Cast
- Utpal Dutt as Manomohan Mitra
- Dipankar Dey as Sudhindra Bose
- Mamata Shankar as Anila Bose
- Bikram Bhattacharya as Satyaki Bose
- Rabi Ghosh as Ranjan Rakshit
- Dhritiman Chatterjee as Prithwish Sen Gupta
Themes
- suspicion
- inheritance
- interrogation
- calcutta
- stranger
- long lost relative
- ethnographer
- nativist
- utpol dutta
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- Satyajit Ray
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- Satyajit Ray
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- Satyajit Ray
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- Utpal DuttMamata ShankarDeepankar DeDhritiman ChatterjeePromod GanguliRabi Ghosh
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- Satyajit Ray
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- Barun Raha
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- NFDCDD Productions
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- Artificial Eye (UK)
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- 120 minutes
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- Bengali
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 590309
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- publication date
- 1991-05-10
- title
- আগন্তুক
- review score
- 100%
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Agantuk (; known by its English title The Stranger) is a 1991 Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Notable for being Ray's last film, it was based on one of his own short stories, Atithi. A joint Indo-French production, it received financial backing from companies such as Gérard Depardieu's DD Productions and Canal+.
== Plot summary == Anila Bose, who lives in Calcutta, receives a letter from someone claiming to be her long lost uncle, Manomohan Mitra. He writes that he is visiting India after 35 years abroad and, as Anila is his only surviving relative, wants to meet her before he sets off again. Anila looks forward to it, but her husband, Sudhindra, is suspicious. The uncle arrives and stays. He says that he is an anthropologist who has traveled all over the world, and immediately wins the friendship of their pre-teen son, Satyaki.