The Holy Man (1965)
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- 1h 5min
- Comedy
- 07 May 1965 (India)
- Movie
- 1 win.
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Charuprakash Ghosh | ... |
Birinchi Baba
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| Rabi Ghosh | ... |
Birinchi Baba's assistant
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Prasad Mukherjee | ... |
Gurupada Mitter
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Gitali Roy | ... |
Buchki
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Satindra Bhattacharya | ... |
Satya
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Somen Bose | ... |
Nibaran
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Santosh Dutta | ... |
Professor Nani
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Renuka Roy | ... |
Nani's wife
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Satya Banerjee | ... |
Nitai
(as Satya Bandyopadhyay)
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Haridhan Mukherjee | ... |
Ganesh
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Dilip Bose | ... |
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Jagat Chakraborty |
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Ila Chatterjee | ... |
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Santi Chatterjee | ... |
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Shrikanto Chattopadhyay |
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Shailen Ganguli |
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Nirmal Ghosh |
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Ajit Gupta |
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P. Pal |
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Nani Sardar |
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Prabhat Sarkar |
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Aditya Singh |
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Mani Srimani |
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Directed by
| Satyajit Ray | ||
Written by
| Rajshekhar 'Parashuram' Basu | ... | (story "Birinchi Baba") |
| Satyajit Ray | ... | (screenplay) |
Produced by
| R.D. Bansal | ... | producer |
Music by
| Satyajit Ray | ||
Cinematography by
| Soumendu Roy | ||
Editing by
| Dulal Dutta | ||
Production Design by
| Bansi Chandragupta | ||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Amiya Sanyal | ... | first assistant director |
Sound Department
| Atul Chatterjee | ... | sound |
| Nripen Paul | ... | sound |
| Sujit Sarkar | ... | sound |
Thanks
| Jayanta Bhattacharya | ... | acknowledgment |
| B.L. Sarkar | ... | acknowledgment (as Shri B. L. Sarkar) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Les Acacias (2014) (France) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Les Films de l'Atalante (1994) (France) (theatrical)
- Gala Entertainment Corp. (2004) (United States) (DVD)
- Leopardo Filmes (2014) (Portugal)
- The Criterion Channel (2021) (United States) (tv) (digital)
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
A retired lawyer meets a holy man # Birinchi Baba (Charuprakash Ghosh) and his assistant (Robi Ghosh) # on his way back from a pilgrimage # and is totally taken in by his supernatural life. The holy man is on first name terms with Buddha and all the gods of the Hindu pantheon. What the world calls 'Cruci-fiction' he calls 'Cruci-fact' because he has seen it with his own eyes! He even starts giving orations to an audience of the rich and famous at the lawyer's residence. The gullible lawyer decides to get his entire family initiated into the guru's fold # including his unmarried younger daughter (Gitali Roy) who is being courted by a young man (Satindra Bhattacharya). His group of intelligent and rationalist friends (Somen Bose et al) decide to take matters in their own hands # and hatch a plot to expose the smooth-talking charlatan. Written by Diptakirti Chaudhuri |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | Each session ends with Birinchi swooning into a cataleptic trance, requiring that he be carried unconscious back to his room. It's a gag favored by witch doctors and mediums, even Peter Finch's news anchor Howard Beale in Sidney Lumet's Network (1976). The dramatic ritual lets Birinchi Baba evade inconvenient questions, but also provides Satya's friends with a clever means to expose him as a fraud. See more » |
| Goofs | Plato is claimed to have been a Roman astrologer instead of a Greek philosopher. See more » |
| Quotes |
Nitai:
If an insurance agent like you can do hatha-yoga, my boy, why can't I find a Baba? See more » |