The Visitor

Agantuk, feature film, 1991

DIRECTED BY: Satyajit Ray

The Visitor

CAST:
Utpal Dutt (Manomohan Mitra),
Dipankar De (Sudhindra Bose),
Mamata Shankar (Anila Bose),
Dhritiman Chatterjee (Prithwish Sen Gupta),
Bikram Bhattacharya (Satyaji)

SCRIPT:
Satyajit Ray

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Barun Raha

Synopsis:
A married couple, Anila and Sudhindra, receive an unexpected visitor - Anila’s uncle, Manmohan. Their eleven-year-old son Satyaji is enchanted with Manmohan’s stories about countries that he had visited during his thirty-year-long absence. However, Satyaji’s parents are skeptical of their unknown relative. After one dinner Manmohan gets offended because of his family’s many questions and he disappears. Anila and Sudhindra set out to look for him…

color, 120 min