Uttoran (1994)
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | 01:18:13 | 6,65 Gb
Audio: Bengali AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | 01:18:13 | 6,65 Gb
Audio: Bengali AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Sandip Ray
Stars: Bina, Lily Chakravarty, Soumitra Chatterjee
Sen Gupta, a doctor who only treats upper-class patients, is forced to confront his own moral and medical beliefs as he discovers rural India during an unexpected stop at a village. He finds a breathless man lying on the side of the road. With little sympathy, the doctor sends him back to his own village for treatment. When Dr. Gupta discovers that the villages wants a witch doctor to treat the man, he attends the exorcism and is shocked. A transformation of the cold city man then follows.
In November 1991, just five months before his death, Indian film maker Satyajit Ray wrote his last screenplay – the tale of a city physician who caters to the upper classes and confronts the narrowness of his life when he meets an ailing peasant.
Ray didn't live long enough to direct "The Broken Journey," so his son, Sandip, now 42, completed his father's work. The film, which follows the successful Masterworks of Satyajit Ray series, opens today at the Embarcadero Center Cinema for a one-week run.
For Ray fans, "The Broken Journey" is noteworthy mostly as the film maker's last screenplay, but also because it stars Soumitra Chatterjee – the actor who played the title role in Ray's "The World of Apu" (1959) and also starred as Sharmila Tagore's husband in "Devi" (1961).
Now in his late 50s, Chatterjee isn't the lanky, anxious Apu any longer, but a much heavier, much older actor who's perfectly cast as Dr. Sengupta, a Calcutta physician who goes out of town to deliver a lecture and experiences an epiphany when his chauffeur-driven car is sidelined with a flat tire.
Near the edge of the road, he finds an elderly villager who can barely breathe and claims to be "under the spell." When four men from the man's village identify the man as a drunk and a vagabond with a taste for ganja, Dr. Sengupta goes ahead on his journey. Plagued by second thoughts, he directs his driver to the peasant's village, where he disrupts a witch Satyajit Ray wrote the screenplay for 'Broken Journey' doctor's exorcism and then gives the old man an injection to ease his breathing.
In India, where countrymen are strictly divided by an ancient caste system that shows no signs of waning, a man like Sengupta would typically spend as little time as possible tending to the needs of a peasant. That's why it's remarkable when Sengupta stays for dinner, befriends the old man's widowed daughter and son and pledges to bring them to Calcutta and support them while the young woman studies nursing.
There's a simplistic quality to "The Broken Journey," and a sentimentality to its notion of the rich's finding humility and grace through knowing the poor. For Sengupta, a brief encounter with the lower castes proves nothing less than life-changing. In a letter to a friend, he explains, "I realize I have never done a good deed. Now I have an opportunity to do one."
It's not a great film, and Sandip Ray lacks the elegant pacing and polish of his father's classic films: Some performances are awkward, and the looping (post-dubbing of the dialogue) is rough at times.
Still, the heart of Satyajit Ray is evident in this unpretentious labor of love. Sandip Ray isn't a cinematic master, but the gentle, generous gaze that he gives to his characters is clearly his father's bequest.
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