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A devout Hindu family falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man.A devout Hindu family falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man.A devout Hindu family falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man.
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Rabi Ghosh
- Birinchi Baba's assistant
- (as Robi Ghosh)
Prasad Mukherjee
- Gurupada Mitter
- (as Prasad Mukhopadhyay)
Somen Bose
- Nibaran
- (as Somen Basu)
Satya Banerjee
- Nitai
- (as Satya Bandyopadhyay)
Haridhan Mukherjee
- Ganesh
- (as Haridhan Mukhopadhyay)
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- TriviaEach session ends with Birinchi swooning into a cataleptic trance, requiring that he be carried unconscious back to his room. It's a gag favored by witch doctors and mediums, even Peter Finch's news anchor Howard Beale in Sidney Lumet's Network : Main basse sur la TV (1976). The dramatic ritual lets Birinchi Baba evade inconvenient questions, but also provides Satya's friends with a clever means to expose him as a fraud.
- GoofsPlato is claimed to have been a Roman astrologer instead of a Greek philosopher.
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD (Extra Movie in "IL MONDO DI APU"), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
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A religious charlatan claims to have been around for thousands of years, and no matter how outrageous his lies, has an entire village rapt and under his influence. This includes a widower and his daughter, upsetting the plans of marriage for her suitor, so the young man turns to his friends for help. The film is based on a short story by Parashuram, but it seems like a variation of Molière's Tartuffe, or reminded me of it anyway. I certainly like the concept of exposing religious hypocrisy anywhere and everywhere, but the story here is too linear and simple to make a great film. Ray doesn't flesh out his characters or develop any other subplot, so even at 65 minutes it felt a little dry. It's kind of interesting to compare this fictional character to other con-men though.
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- May 25, 2021
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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