Ghare-Baire
When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Westem-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her withe schooling and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an aconomic rebellion against the British, she takes p his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought
Ganasatru
Legendary Indian film director Satyajit Ray develped this project based on a classic play by Henryk ibsen because his doctor wanted him to only shoot films in a studio. The story has been transfereed to Bengal, and bengali is the language used in the film. In the story, Dr. Ashoke Gupta (Sumitra Chatterji) is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risk his career to try cand call attention to this polluted water source. His efforts are thwarted by a local group of building contractors, who attempt to discredit him in various ways. Despite that, Dr. Gupta has supporters, and a reporter from calcutta offers to tell his story in the papers there. Clarke fountaion, All movie Guide.
Agantuk
An well-off Indian family is paid an unepected, and rather unwanted, visit by an man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as the regales them with stories of his travels tales that are at odd with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
