Synopsis
This bittersweet story is one of the last two films directed by acclaimed Bengali Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). In the story, Ananda Majumdar (Maradan Bannerjee) is the very moral and upright 70 year old patriarch of a family, with four grown sons. His father and one of his sons live at home with him, and his other three sons live elsewhere. When he collapses during a banquet being given in his honor, the sons and their families gather at his bedside at home. There, while their father lies for the most part comatose, the boys reveal to each other exactly what they’ve been up to without the sugar coating they’ve been giving their father. The oldest boy has been embezzling from the company he runs, another one is losing money for fun at the racetrack, and yet another has given up a decent job in order to become an actor.

Shakha.Proshakha.AKA.Branches.of.the.Tree.1990.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 0mn
Size:	2.41 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	696x480 ~> 696x522
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	2 407 kb/s
Audio
Bengali 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/9B32AF797BEA7E7/Shakha.Proshakha.AKA.Branches.of.the.Tree.1990.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Bengali
Subtitles:English

The post Satyajit Ray – Shakha Proshakha aka The Branches of the Tree (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A relatively short film by Satyajit Ray standards, the director’s 1965 film Kapurush (The Coward) actually forms part of a double-bill with Mahapurush (The Holy Man), also included separately in this collection. The first part of the diptych is in some ways complementary to the films around it, moving on from the themes in the earlier Mahanagar and Charulata, where women are forced suppress their own individuality and desires in favour of the direction laid down by a male-dominated society, but it also anticipates Nayak’s look at the weaknesses in men (that one a “hero”, this one a “coward”), and is also similarly connected in this way with the workings of the movie industry. The combination of the strength of the female characters when confronted with weak male behaviour makes for a particularly interesting situation in Kapurush.

1.86GB | 1h 09m | 766×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FF588D7D333172C/Kapurush.AKA.The.Coward.1965.Criterion.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Bengali
Subtitles:English

The post Satyajit Ray – Kapurush AKA The Coward (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.