Sharmila Tagore has been Soumitra Chatterjee's Wife for three years. While he is gone for college, his father, Chhabi Biswas, have a dream in which he beholds Miss Tagore as the goddess he has worshipped all his life. Soon he has convinced everyone in the neighborhood of this, and miracles are ascribed to her. Chatterjee, however, does not believe this, and she is uncertain of her divinity.
The copy of this movie, which played recently on TCM, is in poor condition, alas. The soundtrack is in particularly poor shape. Nonetheless, Satyajit Ray's of the clash between superstition and rationality, religion and skepticism, is remains clear and powerful. The long lines of pilgrims who come to worship the stoic goddess are testaments of faith in a world in which divinity exists in the mundane.
Miss Tagore was fourteen when she appeared in this movie, her second, during her summer vacation. Now, almost sixty years later and the veteran of more than one hundred features, she remembers the shoot as a mystical experience; is not all creativity participation in the divine?
The copy of this movie, which played recently on TCM, is in poor condition, alas. The soundtrack is in particularly poor shape. Nonetheless, Satyajit Ray's of the clash between superstition and rationality, religion and skepticism, is remains clear and powerful. The long lines of pilgrims who come to worship the stoic goddess are testaments of faith in a world in which divinity exists in the mundane.
Miss Tagore was fourteen when she appeared in this movie, her second, during her summer vacation. Now, almost sixty years later and the veteran of more than one hundred features, she remembers the shoot as a mystical experience; is not all creativity participation in the divine?