Bari Theke Paliye

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Bari Theke Paliye
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Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Written by Ritwik Ghatak (screenplay),
Shibram Chakraborty
(the original novel)
Produced byChitrakalpa
Starring Kali Banerjee
Gyanesh Mukherjee
Keshto Mukherjee
Jahar Roy
Cinematography Dinen Gupta
Edited byRamesh Joshi [1]
Music by Salil Chowdhury
Production
company
L.B. Films International [2]
Release date
  • 24 July 1959 (1959-07-24)
Running time
117 min.
Language Bengali

Bari Theke Paliye (English-language title: Runaway or The Runaway) is a 1959 coming-of-age Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak. [3] [4]

Contents

This film was directed by alternative Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta) based on the same name novel by Shibram Chakraborty. [5] The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta. [6] [7]

Plot

Eight-year-old Kanchan is always getting into mischief, playing pranks at home and around the village. He sees his father as a cruel demon who imprisons and oppresses his mother. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado — Kolkata — but when he arrives, he finds that reality is harsher than he expected. The glimpses of reality he catches, however, are harsher than he expected, and the people he meets offer him an alternative view of the city. He learns the dialectics of life in the City of Joy: love and hate, honesty and dishonesty. He meets Mini, a small, loving girl, and her family, as well as folk singers, street hawkers, magicians, beggars and thieves. After struggling to survive, he experiences life as it is, only to return home to his village. This time, he returns a more mature person, having realised that his father is not a demon, but another victim of poverty who remains a loving father. [8]

Cast

Soundtrack

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bari Theke Paliye". 20 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "Bari Theke Paliye" . Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  3. ↑ Banerjee, Haimanti (1985). Ritwik Kumar Ghatak : a monograph. Pune: National Film Archive of India. p. 8. ISBN   8120100018.
  4. ↑ 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.{{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Ayan Ray, Bari Theke Paliye {The Runaway} (1959) , retrieved 19 April 2024
  6. ↑ "The Runaway". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  7. ↑ "Bilingual E-archive Digital Platform for Bengal's Cinema". Bengal Film Archive. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  8. ↑ Chandrima S. Bhattacharya. "There is nowhere left to run" . Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  9. ↑ Das, Soumitra (27 July 2021). "Finding Ritwik Ghatak's boy hero". Business Line. Chennai. Retrieved 19 April 2024.


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