Three Daughters (1961)

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Movie
German title Three daughters
Original title তিন কন্যা
(Teen Kanya)
Country of production India
original language Bengali
Publishing year 1961
length The postmaster: 41 minutes
Monihara: 50 minutes
Samapti: 69 minutes
Rod
Director Satyajit Ray
script Satyajit Ray
production Satyajit Ray
music Satyajit Ray , Rabindranath Thakur
camera Soumendu Roy
cut Dulal Dutta
occupation

The postmaster

Monihara

Samapti

Three daughters ( Bengali : তিন কন্যা , tin kanyā ) is an Indian feature film by Satyajit Ray from 1961. It consists of three episodic films, each based on a short story by Rabindranath Thakur and independent films.

action

The postmaster

Nandalal, a young man, arrives in a remote village to take up the post of postmaster. The orphan girl Ratan takes on housekeeping for him. Nandalal cannot mentally get involved in village life, the farmers are nice but simple and the village idiot shocks him. Growing up and studying in Kolkata , Nandalal quickly gets bored of his lonely job and therefore begins to teach Ratan to read and write. She adores him for it. When Nandalal is down with malaria , Ratan takes care of him.

After this experience, Nandalal is fed up with country life, gives up the job and prepares to leave without noticing how much Ratan has grown fond of him. Ratan is sad and hurt when she watches the arrival of the new postmaster. After handing over his position and last words with the villagers, Nandalal would also like to say goodbye to Ratan and give her part of his last wages as thanks, but she walks past him ignoring the bucket of water that she has fetched for the new postmaster . She cried, but is too sad and proud to take his money.

Nandalal notices his insensitivity, pensively puts the coin back in his pocket and walks away.

Monihara

A village school teacher meets a hooded man by the river and tells him the local horror story about the abandoned palace of the big landowners Saha.

Phanibhusan Saha and his wife Manimalika have come from Kolkata to live in the family's country estate. Manimalika could no longer endure life in an extended family. She was attacked because she has not yet produced any offspring. She is dismissive of her husband. He hopes to buy their love through jewels. This seems to make her happier at first, but the woman becomes obsessed with jewelery and tells her husband to keep buying her new ones. She also develops a phobia that her husband might one day demand the jewels back. When his shop burns down, she offers to help him sell the jewels, but backs off when her husband agrees. While the husband is on the way to raise money, she and her cousin leave with the jewels. On his return, the man is shocked by the absence of his wife and the jewels and slowly drifts into madness - alone in the empty property. He hears voices and steps and is eventually haunted by the ghost of his wife.

After hearing the story, the hooded man says he liked it, just had a few flaws. He reveals himself to be the man from history and vanishes into thin air. The teacher runs away frightened.

Samapti

Amulya returns to his widowed mother in the country after graduating in Kolkata . As he gets off the boat, he is fighting his way down a muddy path and is watched by the teenage boy Mrinmoyee. When he spots her, she bursts into giggling and runs away.

Amulya's mother arranged for him to marry the daughter of a respectable family. Reluctantly, he goes to visit the family in the neighboring village because he finds the girl boring and refuses to marry. Mrinmoyee looks through the window and disrupts getting to know each other by throwing your little croissant into the room and wreaking havoc with it. When Amulya leaves the house, his shoes are gone and he has to walk home barefoot. As he wades back through the muddy path, a shoe is thrown to him. He quickly finds out that it was a prank by Mrinmoyee who is lurking behind a tree.

Made in love by their teasing, he wants to marry Mrinmoyee. His mother is shocked by Amulya's request, the wild and rebellious Mrinmoyee is anything but a "decent bride" according to her imagination. Mrinmoyee is unhappy about the marriage proposal accepted by her mother, as marriage would mean the end of her previous way of life. The marriage takes place, but Mrinmoyee refuses to accept Amulya. On the first night, still in wedding clothes, she secretly flees through the window to her swing by the river. Amulya locks her up in the room the next morning because of this scandal and she has a fit of anger. When he arrives, his books and smashed objects are scattered around the room. He decides to go back to Kolkata and send her to her mother.

It is only after Amulya has left that the desperate Mrinmoyee realizes how much she actually loves him. His mother brings Amulya back to the village on the pretext of being ill. At her request he goes to Mrinmoyee's mother's house, but Mrinmoyee has run away. Weeping she hears his call. He goes back to his room, where he meets Mrinmoyee, who now wants to live with him.

background

This episode film was initially released internationally without Monihara . Ray took up the three short stories of Thakur as a contribution to his 100th birthday in 1961 and also shot the documentary Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion .

Three Daughters was released on May 5, 1961.

Reviews

If I were forced to pick just one work by Ray to show to someone unknown to his films, it would be Three Daughters. Andrew Robinson (Ray's biographer)

Awards

  • National Film Award for Best Film in Bengali 1961
  • Golden Boomerang, Melbourne, 1962
  • Selznick Golden Laurel Award, Berlin, 1963

Individual evidence

  1. ^ His Career ( Memento of December 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ in: Andrew Robinson, Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye , 1989 (2004), p. 128, ISBN 1860649653

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