Two (1964) Short Silent Film Directed By SATYAJIT RAY | Best BENGALI Short MOVIE | Tollywood Kolkata
Two (
1964)
Short Silent Film Directed By SATYAJIT
RAY | A Must
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Parable of the Two: A
Film is a 1964 black-and-white short film directed by an
Indian director Satyajit Ray.
The film was made under the banner of
Esso World Theater at the request of a non-profit
American public broadcasting television,
PBS.
Two
1964,
India. 15 mins.,
B/W, no spoken language
Credits
Producer: Esso World Theater
Original Screenplay &
Direction: Satyajit Ray
Cinematography:
Soumendu Roy
Editing:
Dulal Dutta
Art Direction:
Bansi Chandragupta
Sound: Sujit
Sarkar
Music: Satyajit Ray
Cast
Ravi Kiran and a street child
ummary
In a fairy tale like treatment, the film shows an encounter of two boys - a rich kid living in big house and a boy living in a slum. The rich boy’s window overlooks the slum.
The film moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. When the slum boy takes out a flute, the rich boy drowns its sound by his loud toy-trumpet; when the slum boy switches to a home-made mask and spear, the rich boy becomes a cowboy with a gun; when the slum boy tries to fly a humble kite, the rich boy shoots it down by his toy rifle… The slum boy gives up trying to be friends with the rich boy and the rich boy seems proud of his victory.
Not for long, though…
Notes of the slum boy’s flute are heard again as the rich boys noisy toy-robot trips and breaks down. The film ends with the rich boy pondering over his unspoken defeat.
Two was made as part of a trilogy of short films from
India that were commissioned by the US
Public Television under the banner of Esso World Theater. The other two films featured
Pandit Ravi Shankar and a ballet troupe from
Bombay.
Ray was asked make a film in
English in a Bengali setting. Not very happy with the prospect, he opted to do away with the spoken word. A great admirer of the silent cinema, Ray pays a tribute to the genre.
The film “packs quite a punch in its ten (actually
15) minutes”, Ray wrote to
Marie Seton at the timing of making the film
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Feluda (Bengali: ফেলুদা), or Prodosh
Chandra Mitra, (Bengali: প্রদোষ চন্দ্র মিত্র), who also uses the Anglicised name Pradosh C. Mitter, is a fictional private investigator starring in a series of
Bengali novels and short stories written by
Indian Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray. The detective lives at 21
Rajani Sen
Road,
Ballygunge,
Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Feluda first made his appearance in a Bengali children's magazine called Sandesh in
1965, under the editorialship of Satyajit and
Subhas Mukhopadhyay. His first adventure was
Feludar Goendagiri.
Feluda is most of the times accompanied by his cousin Tapesh (affectionately called
Topshe by Feluda), who serves as the narrator of the stories. From the sixth story,
Sonar Kella (
The Golden Fortress), the duo are joined by a popular thriller writer
Jatayu (Lalmohon Ganguli).
Feluda has had been filmed at times, with the character been played by
Soumitra Chatterjee,
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty,
Abir Chatterjee and
Shashi Kapoor. Satyajit Ray directed two Feluda movies— Sonar Kella (
1974) and
Joi Baba Felunath (1978).
Sandip Ray made a series of telefilms and serials on Feulda's adventures. He also made a few full-length
Bengali films on the character.