Agantuk


Agantuk Bengali Agontuk, lit. The Stranger is a 1991 Bengali drama film directed by Satyajit Ray. It was Rays last film, based on one of his short stories, Atithi The Guest. It was a joint IndianFrench production with financial backing from companies such as Grard Depardieus DD Productions and Canal.

Anila suddenly remembers her grandfathers will, and Sudhindra is quick to suspect that the man calling himself Manomohan has come only to claim his share of the inheritance. Anila now also starts to doubt his identity, while their son truly believes that he is the man he claims to be.The central conflict of the film rests upon the identity of the man and the familys struggle to accept or reject it. Sudhindra subjects the visitor to various tests in an effort to resolve this conflict. In a final attempt to unravel the truth, he invites a lawyer friend to gently question the guest. However, things turn ugly as the lawyers anger builds up until he orders the guest to either come clean or just clear out. Next morning, the visitor is gone. Desperate to find him and win him back, the family finally learns that he is in fact Manmohan Mitra, and locate him in a remote village. ........

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