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Kapurush (The Coward) and Mahapurush (The Holy Man)
Wed, Dec 22 | 7:30pm | TMT
Intended to screen together as a double bill, these two films underscore Ray’s range from existentialist drama to light-hearted satire. In Kapurush , a young screenwriter (Soumitra Chatterjee) has to lay over on a tea plantation in Hashi- mara when his car breaks down. Little does he realize, he and the wife of his host (Madhabi Mukherjee) have a personal history together and a noirish whirlpool of agonizing flashbacks is unleashed. Mahapurush returns Ray to the world of reli- gious fanaticism, this time for laughs as a family falls under the sway of the age- less Birinchi Baba (an exuberant Charuprakash Ghosh) and his incredulous claims.
Kapurush
DIRECTOR: Satyajit Ray.
CAST: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Santi Chatterjee.
1965. 69 min. India. B&W. Bengali. 35mm.
Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Mahapurush
DIRECTOR: Satyajit Ray.
CAST: Charuprakash Ghosh, Rabi Ghosh, Prasad Mukherjee, Gitali Roy.
1965. 66 min. India. B&W. Bengali. 35mm.
Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
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