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Credits Producer: National Film Development Corporation of India Screenplay & Direction: Satyajit Ray, Based on the short story: 'Atithi' by Satyajit Ray Cinematography: Barun Raha Editing: Dulal Dutta Art Direction: Ashoke Bose Sound: Sujit Sarkar Music: Satyajit Ray Songs: S. Banerjee Distributed on video: First Run Features Cast Character: Performer Manomohan Mitra: Utpal Dutt Anila Bose: Mamata Shankar Subindra Bose: Deepankar De Ranjan Rakshit: Rabi Ghosh Chanda Rakshit: Subrata Chatterjee Prithwish Sen Gupt, the lawyer: Dhritiman Chatterjee Satyaji: Bikram Bannerjee Tridib Mukherjee: Promod Ganguli Sital Sarkar: Ajit Banerjee
Awards FIPRESCI Award, Venice, 1991 Best Film, New Delhi, 1991 Best Director, New Delhi, 1991 ***************************** One of the later directorial ventures of Oscar winning Indian director Satyajit Ray, the Bengali film "Agantuk" (the native word for stranger) is the story of a globetrotting man named Manmohan Mitra (Utpal Dutt) who returns to India after 25 years. He visits his niece Anila (Mamata Shankar) in Calcutta, who knows him as a part of the family tree but has never seen him in person. Even as Manmohan gels with the family and enthralls them with his exotic experiences, Anila's husband (Dipankar De) - and to some extent, she herself - suspect the man's true identity and intent.
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