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Director: Satyajit Ray Made: 1962 Writers: Satyajit Ray, Based on the short stories: 'Janaiko Kapuruser Kahini' by Premendra Mitra (The Coward) and 'Birinchibaba' by Parashuram (The Holy Man) Genre: Double bill
Cast: KapurushSoumitra Chatterjee … Amitabha Roy Haradhan Bannerjee … Bimal Gupta Madhabi Mukherjee … Karuna Gupta MahapurushCharuprakash Ghosh … Birinchi Baba Rabi Ghosh … His assistant Prasad Mukherjee … Gurupada Mitter Gitali Roy … Buchki Satindra Banerjee … Satya Somen Bose … Nibaran Santosh Dutta … Professor Nani Renuka Roy … Professor's wife
Unappreciated in his time and in his land, this film is now being seen as possibly being far ahead of its time. It’s a double bill of twin films, both of which rose out of a desire to experiment with the very form of cinema. From the use of cinematic tricks like animations and freeze-frames in Mahapurush, to the examination of the mechanisms of cowardice and guilt in Kapurush, Ray proves, yet agan, that he is ever new and ever experimental. Mahapurush is a simple, farce like examination of the very common occurrence of a charlatan duping seemingly intelligent people, by religious mumbo jumbo. There is more of a critique of the followers, than of the cheat himself. After all, Ray seems to say, the cheat is a cheat, out to dupe people; that’s what he does. The real shame lies on the educated, so-called intelligentsia that follows the cheat, in spite of the expectations that they should know better. They are betraying their education and upbringing. Kaapurush is a straightforward examination of one man’s inability to live up to his responsibilities to his fiancée, and the subsequent guilt, many years later, when he sees her in an apparently unhappy marriage. The subtlety of his egotistic expectation that she will now leave with him, and her understated yet very final revenge, both are exactly what one would expect from a director of Ray’s caliber.
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