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Chhabi Biswas in Jalsaghar (1958) | Satyajit Ray Productions Astonishingly, folded in between the films that comprise the celebrated Apu Trilogy , are two movies inspired by Bengali literature and Satyajit Ray’s association with two outstanding Bengali character actors: Tulsi Chakraborty in Parash Pathar and Chhabi Biswas in Jalsaghar. The first is perhaps minor (in spite of Chakraborty’s phenomenal performance) and is now mostly forgotten. However the latter is among t...

Sharmila Tagore in Satyajit Ray’s Devi (1960) | Satyajit Ray Productions Satyajit Ray arrived on the planet nearly a hundred years ago in 1921 and in the world of cinema with Pather Panchali in 1955. Devi and Jalsaghar . Apur Sansar , the concluding chapter of the trilogy, introduced Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore. Both actors would become an indelible part of Ray’s cinematic universe. The haunting Devi , set in nineteenth-century Bengal and at the intersectio...