intimacy across the table—a thread

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle / Frances Ha / In The Mood For Love / Pulp Fiction / Modern Times / Nayak / Before Sunrise / Paterson / Kapurush / Hiroshima Mon Amour

Madhabi Mukherjee in Kapurush / The Coward (1965)

| dir. Satyajit Ray

I’m an aspirant for your hand. May I hold it?

Soumitra Chatterjee in...

The World of Apu (1959) Charulata (1964) The Coward (1965)

...dir. Satyajit Ray

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) ~ Kapurush • The Coward (Satyajit Ray, 1965)

The Coward (1965)

AND THEY CALL OLD SCHOOL ROMANCE DULL

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Movie: Kapurush

Director: Satyajit Ray

– kapurush,1965

Kapurush 1965

Kapurush / The Coward (1965) | dir. Satyajit Ray

[ Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee ]

Given that Satyajit Ray is accused of never having written a female protagonist in any of his own stories, it is the female protagonists of his movies that draws me back to rewatching them as they keep revealing new aspects every single time. The Apu Trilogy, Devi, Charulata, Ghare Baire, Mahanagar, Kapurush, Seemabadho, all portrays the internal struggles of not only of being a woman in our society but of being a human, with their needs, desires and obligations. Ray in this sense used the symbolism: Female = Ghare (home) = internal/individual and Male = Baire (outside/world) = external/society. This correlation itself can be termed sexist or to be siding with existing sexist views, yet it remains to be a fact that he adapted some of the best written women characters of bengali literature with grace and dignity that is on par with world cinema even today.

Kapurush - Full Movie - Satyajit Ray

The Coward (1965)