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
Music by Salil Chowdhury
Production
company
L.B. Films International [1]
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. [2] [3]

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This film was directed by alternative Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta) based on the same name novel by Shibram Chakraborty. [4] The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta. [5] [6]

Plot

Kanchan, who is 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. [7]

Cast

Soundtrack

See also

References

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


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