In Satyajit Ray’s ‘Pratidwandi’, a ‘very contemporary’ hunt for work and meaning : Mar 21, 2021 : Nandini Ramnath :
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================================================ Friday, March 26, 2021. 12:18.PM. In Satyajit Ray’s ‘Pratidwandi’, a ‘very contemporary’ hunt for work and meaning : Mar 21, 2021 : Nandini Ramnath : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acclaimed actor Dhritiman Chaterji tells ‘Scroll.in’ about playing the young and restless Siddhartha in the 1971 classic. Nandini Ramnath In Satyajit Ray’s ‘Pratidwandi’, a ‘very contemporary’ hunt for work and meaning *Dhritiman Chaterji in Pratidwandi (1971) | Priya Films A sense of finality marks Satyajit Ray’s early Bengali films, the feeling of an impeccably arranged piece of music or a poem perfect down to the last syllable. But by the 1960s, Ray’s cinema had started to reflect the social and political ferment that bubbled around the filmmaker in his native Kolkata. Mahanagar (1963), about a housewife who enters the workplace causing domestic turmoil, Nayak (1966), starring Uttam Kumar as a troubl