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Title Devi
Published The Criterion Collection, 1960
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in DEVI (THE GODDESS), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In rural India in the second half of the nineteenth century, after his son (Soumitra Chatterjee) leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy feudal landlord (Chhabi Biswas) is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore) is an incarnation of the Mother Goddess--a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The elegantly stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering
Notes Title from title frames
Film
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Performer Chhabi Biswas, Purnendu Mukherjee, Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee
Event Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1960
Notes In English
Subject Upper class families -- India -- Drama
Women -- India -- Drama
Women in Hinduism -- Drama
Man-woman relationships -- India -- Drama
Hindu goddesses -- Drama
Insnaity (Law) -- Drama
Truth -- Drama
Superstition -- Drama
Foreign films.
Drama.
Motion pictures.
Drama
Motion Pictures
plays (performing arts compositions)
drama (literary genre)
Women in Hinduism
Women
Upper class families
Truth
Superstition
Man-woman relationships
Hindu goddesses
Drama
Foreign films
Motion pictures
India
Genre/Form Drama
Feature films
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Ray, Satyajit, film director
Biswas, Chhabi, actor
Mukherjee, Purnendu, actor
Tagore, Sharmila, actor
Chatterjee, Soumitra, actor
The Criterion Collection (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm)