Abhijan
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| অভিযান Abhijan (The Expedition) |
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| Directed by | Satyajit Ray |
| Produced by | Abhijatrik |
| Written by | Satyajit Ray, adapted from the novel Abhijan by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay |
| Starring | Soumitra Chatterjee Waheeda Rehman Ruma Guha Thakurta Gnyanesh Mukherjee Charuprakash Ghosh Rabi Ghosh Arun Roy |
| Release date(s) | 1962 |
| Running time | 150 min. |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bangla |
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Abhijan (অভিযান) is a 1962 film directed by Satyajit Ray.
[edit] Plot
Soumitra Chatterjee plays Narsingh, a taxi driver. Narsingh is a proud and hot-tempered Rajput with a passion for his car, a vintage 1930 Chrysler. He recklessly passes the car of a powerful, local policeman and has his permit taken away. It forces him to take refuge in a small town on the borders of the states of West Bengal and Bihar.
Sukhanram (Charuprakash Ghosh), a shady merchant, offers him a handsome fee to transport some merchandise, and soon he finds himself into trafficking in opium. The two main women characters Neeli and Gulabi form a contrast. Narsingh is attracted to Neeli (Ruma Guha Thakurta), a reserved Catholic schoolteacher. She has no interest in Narsingh. The other female character is warm, demonstrative and beautiful prostitute Gulabi (Waheeda Rehman). Gulabi has an instinctive liking towards Narsingh.
Unaware that Neeli has already committed herself to another man, a cripple, for Neeli’s sake, Narsingh begins to reform himself and even takes interest in her religion. However, Narsingh soon finds himself helping Neeli elope with her cripple lover. He is also seduced by Sukhanram and his lawyer friends to enter into a partnership and is even willing to sell off of his car to invest in the smuggling venture.
Confronted by Gulabi, his assistant Rama (Rabi Ghosh) and finally by Neeli’s brother Joseph (Gnyanesh Mukherjee), Narsingh realises his mistake. Despite the romantic disillusion, he finds spiritual redemption when, in a climactic sequence of events, he splits with his smuggler associates and rescues Gulabi from them. Narsingh is united with the woman he truly loves.
[edit] External links
- Abhijan at satyajitray.org
- UCSC on the film
- Abhijan - UK release 2006
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