Having recently seen Nishipadma and Grihadaaha before this, in that order, and seeing Nishipadma brought home the utter simplicity of Sabitri Chatterji dressed so very genuinely simple, and the contrast with its remake, and wondered how the two heroines of Uttam Kumar compared as artists, both superlative in their performances.
Didn't know that the very next one one picked would have the three and with another artist that matched too in his performance, in Grihadaaha. What a superb film! And then one picked this, and surprises continue.
Just when one wonders, having finished watching Grihadaaha, whether Suchitra Sen was always modern in Bengali films, and her appearance in traditional Bengali attire was limited to her role in Bimal Roy's Devdas in Hindi, here one sees her appear looking so very like a lotus bud in the traditional Bengali attire, looking so very Vaishnav, pure, fresh! And the region looks so restful, the houses so beautiful!
The new romance in the life of the other young woman 1:00:00, presumably played by Anubha Gupta, seems unnecessary to show, unless she is a major character in the story. So far her role seems to be that of someone who brings home to the no longer rich father's son the value of the young woman his parents had chosen for him. Funny, her face structure has every possible perfection, and yet she never comes close to the epithet of beauty - or even to more than average! Is that about her playing the role so well?
The mother of the young man, usually clad in traditional Bengali attire, seems at 1:13:15 to be in a much finer saree, not cotton - or was cotton that fine, that transparent? Also, later it becomes clear that at this point, he has lost his father, but the death and so on portion is cut out of thus video. It's only when he talks to a poor employee of his workplace that one hears him say his father is no more.
Beautiful song, particularly one line 1:42:45 "je murti thake devaalaye taar nai go visarjan ".
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The video sound is extremely low, and it's horrible to have one's ears blasted by the advertising immediately after the film ends!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh8b8mBoJpg
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