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Pather Panchali (1955) FR #147 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali
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Director Satyajit Ray
Writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray
Cast Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee
Plot Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
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Apur Sansar aka The World Of Apu (1959) FR #205 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali, English
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Director Satyajit Ray
Writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray
Cast Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty
Plot This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
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Aparajito (1956) FR #412 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali, Sanskrit
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Director Satyajit Ray
Writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray, Kanailal Basu
Cast Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari
Plot Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
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Amar Prem (1972) FR #1182 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Hindi
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Director Shakti Samanta
Writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Arabinda Mukhopadhyay, Ramesh Pant
Cast Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Sujit Kumar
Plot A village woman abandoned by her husband is forced into prostitution in Kolkata and forms nameless yet strong relations with a wealthy patron as well as an abused boy in the neighbourhood.
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Ashani Sanket aka Distant Thunder (1973) FR #1212 | Movie | History | India | Bengali
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Director Satyajit Ray
Writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray
Cast Soumitra Chatterjee, Bobita, Sandhya Roy
Plot As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
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Editorial Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay collects the writer’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
