| Kanchenjungha | |
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| Directed by | Satyajit Ray |
| Written by | Satyajit Ray |
| Starring | Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee, Anil Chatterjee, Anubha Gupta, Arun Mukherjee, Alaknanda Roy, Nilima Roy Chowdhuri, Pahadi Sanyal, Subrata Sensharma, Indrani Singh |
| Distributed by | Edward Harrison |
| Release date(s) | 1962 |
| Running time | 102 min |
| Language | Bengali |
Kanchenjungha (Bengali: কাঞ্চনজঙ্ঘা Kanchonjônggha) is a 1962 Bengali film by Bengali film director Satyajit Ray. It was Ray's first original screenplay and his first colour film.
The film is about an upper class Bengali family on vacation in Darjeeling,a popular hill station and resort, near Kanchenjunga. Shot in real time, the film examines the evolving relationships between the various characters. With dialogue shifting between English and Bengali among an ensemble cast, the film was a departure for Ray.
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The narrative structure of the film resembles that of later hyperlink films. According to Ray, it "was a good ten to fifteen years ahead of its time." He described the film's narrative structure as follows:[1]
Our audience likes a central character, or a couple of central characters with whom they can identify, and a story with a straight narrative line. Kanchenjungha told the story of several groups of characters and it went back and forth. You know, between group one, group two, group three, group four, then back to group one, group two, and so on. It's a very musical form
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