Three Daughters (1961)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 02:48:18 | 7,27 Gb
Audio: Bengali 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Comedy, Drama
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 02:48:18 | 7,27 Gb
Audio: Bengali 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Comedy, Drama
Director: Satyajit Ray
To commemorate the centennial of writer Rabindranath Tagore, director Satyajit Ray adapted the Nobel Prize winners’ stories in this anthology. The Postmaster looks at the bond between a Calcutta man who takes a job as a village postmaster and the little girl who works as his housekeeper. Monihara (The Lost Jewels), a ghost story about a jewelry-obsessed woman and her husband. In Samapti (The Conclusion), Soumitra Chatterjee plays a college graduate whose mother has a dull wife picked out for him - until a madcap young woman catches his eye.
Released in 1961, this Bengali film has three of Tagore’s stories presented as three different short films in one. Interestingly, Ray made this film as a tribute to mark Tagore’s birth centenary. In all three stories, female characters are in focus and the director beautifully portrays their emotions on-screen.
The first story, The Post Master, is about a young orphan girl of about 8-10 years, Ratan (Chandana Banerjee), who works as a maid in the village postmaster’s house. Her new master is a young man from Calcutta, Nandalal (Anil Chatterjee) who misses the hustle-bustle of city life and his family back home. Unlike her previous masters, Nandalal is kind to Ratan and starts teaching her Bengali so that she can read and write like his own sister in Calcutta. The film has very few dialogues and silence works well for the simple narrative. The final sequence is heart-breaking and enhances the beauty of this simple story.
Monihara (The Lost Jewels) is the second story in the film and is a psychological thriller. Manimalika (Kanika Majumdar) is married to a rich man Phanibhusan (Kali Banerjee) and stays in a large mansion in a village. Bored at home, her only companions are her pieces of jewelry. She loves her jewels more than anything and her obsession with them becomes visible when her husband faces financial crisis. This part of the film reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Rebecca with the narrative style and the whole set up, including stuffed birds!
Samapti (The Conclusion), the third piece in the film is a love story. Mrinmoyee (Aparna Dasgupta) is a carefree young girl, who as per her mother does nothing what good girls of marriageable age should do. She spends her time playing with kids, chasing squirrels and enjoying the swing next to the river. She catches the attention of Amulya (Soumitra Chatterjee), a young man who is returning to his village after taking his exams in Calcutta. His mother has already found a suitable match for him but he convinces her to arrange an alliance with Mrinmoyee. The film captures the innocence of a young married couple who are different from each other and one of them does not even understand the meaning of marriage or love.
Teen Kanya presents three different films in one and all are masterpieces in their own genre.
The Postmaster is definitely one among the best films by Satyajit Ray. Simple narrative, straightforward story telling and brilliant performances by Chandana Banerjee as Ratan and Anil Chatterjee as the postmaster, Nandalal. Very touching but without any hint of melodrama, the parting of the postmaster and Ratan is pure cinema at its best. The sequence has very little dialogue.
All three stories are individual films in their own right and representative of Ray's many films.
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