The Hero

Spotlight on India

Retrospective

The Hero

Nayak

India 1966 Fiction p&b 120 min.

Arindam Mukherjee is a famous actor of popular Bengali movies on the brink of his first flop. When Mukherjee boards an overnight train to Delhi to accept an award in New Delhi, everyone recognizes him. A journalist approaches him seeking an exclusive interview, which initiates a conversation. Through the bond that develops between them, the hero reviews his actor’s life, his moments of strength and moments of crisis, and he is stricken by a doubt, which sends the actor reeling down a path of self-examination. Winner of a special mention at the 1966 Berlin International Film Festival.

India retrospective existential crisis

direction

Satyajit Ray

screenplay

Satyajit Ray

cinematography

Subrata Mitra

editing

Dulal Dutta

sound

Nripen Paul, Atul Chatterjee, Sujit Sarkar

music

Satyajit Ray

art direction

Bansi Chandragupta

cast

Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen, Somen Bose, Nirmal Ghosh, Premangshu Bose

production

R. D. Bansal, Sharankumari Bansal

produced by

R. D. Bansal & Co.

world sales

RDB Organization

contact

[email protected]

distribution

Imovision

indicative rating

12