The Home and the World (1984)

  • NR
  • 05/22/1984 (FR)
  • Drama
  • 2h 20m

TRADITION VERSUS MODERNISM

Overview

When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.

Satyajit Ray

Director, Screenplay

Rabindranath Tagore

Novel

Cast

Soumitra Chatterjee's headshot

Soumitra Chatterjee

Sandip Mukherjee
Victor Banerjee's headshot

Victor Banerjee

Nikhilesh Choudhury
Swatilekha Sengupta's headshot

Swatilekha Sengupta

Bimala Choudhury
Gopa Aich's headshot

Gopa Aich

The Sister-in-Law
Jennifer Kendal's headshot

Jennifer Kendal

Miss Gilby
Manoj Mitra's headshot

Manoj Mitra

Headmaster
Bimala Chatterjee's headshot

Bimala Chatterjee

Kulada
Indrapramit Roy's headshot

Indrapramit Roy

Amulya

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