Satyajit Ray

Pratipaksha|
1988

Pather Panchali|
1955
Pather Panchali
1955 | 122 min
Harihar Ray lives in Nichindapurwith his family. Nothing is going well for Harihar as he gets a job as an accountant at the zamindar's treasury but does not get any remuneration. In the course of time, he is blessed Apu, his son. His lack of means and various circumstances drive his daughter to die of pneumonia. This proves a turning point in his life and he with his family, leaves for Benaras seeking a better life.
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Ashani Sanket|
1973
Ashani Sanket
1973 | 97 min
Gangacharan, an educated Brahmin, has arrived to settle in the village with his wife, Ananga, a sensitive woman, giving and devoted to her husband. The distant World War II changes the village. Gangacharan is only little more informed than the villagers. As a few aeroplanes disturb the peaceful sky, the word goes around that the war will result in a scarcity of rice and as a result the price of rice soars. To eat, the villagers are reduced to animal-like existence, forced to beg for food. Ananga offers to work for food and she goes to work with other village women. Ananga along with Chutki goes to the forest to look for wild potatoes. A man tries to take Ananga. Chutki kills the man with the bar she used to dig potatoes. An untouchable-caste woman dies for hunger; the first starvation death in the village. Gangacharan, breaking the taboo, give her a proper cremation. Even as we learn that Ananga is pregnant, we see the villagers leave in search of food in silhouettes. The screen is filled with a statement - Over five million died of starvation and epidemics in Bengal in what has come to be known as the man-made famine of 1943.
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Ratrir Tapasya|
1952
Ratrir Tapasya
1952 | 139 min
Bhupen is an excellent student who works as a private tutor to support his education and family. He begins to teach Sandhya who is a rich man s granddaughter. She ends up falling for him and that ruins his career, even though he did not feel the same for her. He later gets married to Kalyani but he and Sandhya still share a bond for the sake of her property.
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Gadibidi Gandam|
1993

Suntaragaali|
2006

Mahendra Varma|
1993

Bhoomi Thayane|
1988