Bari Theke Paliye
Bari Theke Paliye (English-language title: Runaway or The Runaway) is a 1958 coming-of-age Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak.[1][2] It stars Parambhattarak Lahiri, Kali Bannerjee, Nripati Chatterjee, Padma Devi, and Gyanesh Mukherjee.
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| Directed by | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Written by | Ritwik Ghatak (screenplay), Shibram Chakraborty (the original novel) |
| Produced by | Chitrakalpa |
| Starring | Kali Banerjee Satindra Bhattacharya Nripati Chatterjee Shriman Deepak Shailen Ghosh Krishna Jaya Param Bharak Lahiri Gyanesh Mukherjee Keshto Mukherjee Padmadevi Niti Pandit Jahar Roy |
| Music by | Salil Chowdhury |
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Running time | 117 min. |
| Language | Bengali |
This film was directed by alternative Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta) in 1958. The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta.
Plot
Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, i.e. Kolkata till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He gets to know the dialectics of life in the city of joy, love and hate, honesty and dishonesty. He meets the small and loving girl Mini and her family, folk singers, street hawkers, footpath magicians, beggars, thieves. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person he realises that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.
Soundtrack
- Ore–ore Nore–nore, Shonkure... Bulbul Bhaja...
- O, Ami Onek, Ghuriya... Koilkatta
- Mago Amay Deko Na Ko Aar
See also
References
- Banerjee, Haimanti (1985). Ritwik Kumar Ghatak : a monograph. Pune: National Film Archive of India. p. 8. ISBN 8120100018.
- Schoonover, edited by Rosalind Galt, Karl (2010). Global art cinema : new theories and histories. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 491–492. ISBN 978-0195385625.
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