Devi

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.
Special features: New program featuring interviews iwth Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee recording in 2013; new video essay by Meheli Sen; essay by Devika Girish.
Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore.
Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India₂s feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore) is the reincarnation of the goddess Kali a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The opulently stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the entrancing expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering.
DVD, full screen (1.37:1); mono.

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