Parash Pathar
Parash Pathar Bengali Porosh Pathor English The Philosophers Stone French La Pierre Philosophale is a 1958 Bengali language Indian fantasy comedy film. It was Satyajit Rays first film outside of the Apu Trilogy. It was also his first comedy and first magical realist film. Adapted from a short story of the same name by Parasuram Rajsekhar Bose, the film offered an early glimpse of Rays sense of humour, centered on a middleclass clerk who accidentally discovers a stone that can turn other objects into gold.
Dutt buys the stone from the child with sweets after witnessing the stones power himself. He decides to take a few old cannonballs from the city dump, turn them into gold, and sell them. This scheme makes him rich as a chauffeur drives him home from the dump, the car pulls into the driveway of a mansion his new home. He now has a young secretary named Priyatosh Henry Biswas Kali Banerjee who, among other things, mentions that Dutt is invited to a cocktail party his first.At the party, Dutt acts slightly unnatural before engaging in drunken revelry. When another guest orders him to get out, he turns an iron figurine into gold thus partially revealing how he became successful. It is not long before this incident is posted as a headline in the papers, causing a panic in Bengal. Paresh Dutt flees with his wife, Giribala Ranibala Devi, leaving nearly everything including the stone with Priyatosh but cautioning him to hand it over if the police arrive. ........
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